Sources Creation

You can create all kinds of light sources thanks to different sources types.

This section contains the following topics:

Creating an Interactive Source
An Interactive Source generates specific and monochromatic light rays which are useful to understand the behavior of a light beam through an optical system.
Ray File Source
A Ray File Source emits specific rays according to a pre-calculated source (a .ray file) that contains information regarding the position, direction and wavelength of each ray.
Surface Source
A Surface Source can be created on any face of a geometry and uniformly emits light on each point of a surface.
Display Source
The Display Source allows you to simulate the rendering of lit displays.
Light Field Source
A Light Field Source reads the optical light field file *.olf generated by the Light Field sensor to emit light during an inverse simulation run.
Creating a Luminaire Source
The Luminaire Source allows you to model artificial light for outdoor and indoor lighting.
Thermic Source
You can create a Thermic Source by directly selecting the emissive faces of the source in the interface or use a temperature field file bounding the field of action of the thermic source.
Ambient Sources
With an Ambient Source, you can model natural environment light such as the sun and sky.

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