Tutorial Introduction To Lucidshape: Brandenburg GMBH

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Tutorial

Introduction To LucidShape

Overview

LucidShape TutorialCopyright © 2009


Brandenburg GmbH
1: Simulation I
 Basics of forward ray trace
 The simulation setup
 First simple example
 Different ray trace methods
 Monte Carlo
 Light Mapping
 Interactive Ray trace
 Basic Material types
 Emitter: lambert
 Actors: [diffuse] specular, refractive
 Sensors: lumen, lux, cd/m^2
 Complete Example
 CAD data import, export and assign surface properties
 Simulation, Analysis, photometric test tables
 Ray files
 Theory, Sensor, Light source
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2a: Functional Geometry
 Theory for profile curves and surfaces
 Practice with curve and surface test suites

 The 3 major mathematical methods and application


 The PS (procedural surface) application
 The MF (macro focal) application
 The PCS (poly curve system) application

 The PS application
 Various light function
 Reflector, refractor, rectangle, round
 Practice

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2b: Functional Geometry
 The MF (macro focal) application
 Various light function, cutoff lines
 Reflector, refractor
 based on free grid, styling issues
 Practice

 The PCS (poly curve system) application


 PES headlamp
 LED concentrator
 Various lens types: aspherical, fresnel, …
 styling issues
 Practice

 Collimator lens

 Compensation of ray deviation; “neutral” surfaces

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3a: Simulation II
 Advanced Material types
 Emitters: from LID data, curve, surface
 Actors: BSDF
 Sensors: ray history
 Lit Appearance
 Flow sensor
 Luminance camera
 Luminance images
 Analysis
 gather light
 reverse sensor light
 Spectral simulation

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3b: General
o Benchmark TC4-45

o LID Editor for beam pattern combination

o Global Settings

o Ray trace spooler

o CAD like operations in LucidShape

o Data conversion
o NURBS to Mesh surface

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