LucidShape Lite

LucidShape Lite is a flexible tool for the display, analysis and manipulation of light data. Simulation results or goniometer measurements of real lighting fixtures can be viewed, edited and converted. LucidShape Lite includes a subset of LucidShape's powerful optical design functionality. LucidShape Lite is for designers who frequently work with light data, but do not need all of LucidShape's broad geometric design and simulation capabilities.

Key Features

Light Data Display

Display of photometric data:

Light flux [lumen]
Luminous intensity [candela]
Illumination [lux]
Luminance [candela/m2]
Color

Other display of 3D and 4D photometric data:

Dynamic beam pattern for AFS
Intensities distribution over a wavelength range
BSDF data in 3D or 4D
Complete color information
Tristimulus X,Y,Z; CIE x,y; red,green,blue

Luminous Intensity Distribution (LID) File Types

Native CAL software formats

LucidShape [.lid]
ASAP [.din .dis]

International standards

IES [.ies]
CIE [.cie]
Eulumdat [.ldt]

Goniometer formats

Excel notation [.csv]
LTM [.lmt]
Optronik [.krs]
Kohzu [.kzu]
Inflnd Brasil [.prm]

Multidimensional LIDs

Besides static 2D data, LucidShape Lite can also operate on higher-dimensional data like dynamic beam patterns for adaptive front lighting (AFS) and BSDF data or luminous intensities over a wavelength range. Access to individual data layers is easy to handle, and whole data sets may be dynamically displayed as animated sequences.

Regulations Control: Test Tables

LucidShape Lite contains hundreds of test tables, enabling your light data to be checked against all sorts of international or regional regulations. You may also create individual test tables to perform qualitative light data examinations.

LID Operations

LucidShape Lite offers a broad range of functions and operations for your light data. For example, you can subtract two light distributions to examine their similarities and differences. Another application is to smooth results for better real time simulations, or to mirror the results for left-hand traffic.

Comparison of measured and simulated data by LID subtraction

Comparison of US and European beam patterns with bird's eye view

Overview of Important LID Operations

Filter (Smooth)
Scale
Stretch
Add, subtract
Mult, divide
Mirror
Swap
Make symmetric
Shift range
Rotate
Convert angle system
Cross section curves
LID as surface
Bird's eye view
Driver view

LID Editor

The LID editor is a unique tool to build luminous intensity distributions as a combined sum of existing light data files. In the combined sum, each component my be freely shifted, rotated, scaled or mirrored. To build 3D beam patterns, you can move or blend components. Such theoretical AFS beam patterns can be loaded into LucidDrive to simulate AFS drives.

Combination of individual LED modules forming the beam pattern of an LED headlamp

Integration with LMT SoLiT Automotive Software

A dedicated LucidShape Lite plug-in is available in photometric measurement systems from LMT Lichtmesstechnik GmbH Berlin (LMT) for automotive lighting applications.

The plug-in transfers measured data with one click into LMT SoLiT Automotive software for additional analysis in LucidShape Lite. Data can be saved into LID format, allowing lossless comparison with simulated data from LucidShape, or further evaluation using advanced software products such as LucidDrive.