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1. Data Contents record 4 byte integer 247 1024 number of rays 24 bytes not utilized 24 bytes string Title Bytes not utilized are filled up with a blank The string does not end with zero 8 bytes string Tot Flux 4 bytes float total luminous flux sum of the amplitudes of all rays 16 bytes string e g XYZABCF MM _ The first 7 signs denote the ray data format 3 coordinates of the initial points of the ray 3 ray directions amplitude MM stands for millimeter 1 e the unit in which the initial points of the rays are indicated Further possibilities are M meter CM centimeter INCH Inch 1 Inch 25 4 mm 4 16 bytes string Ray number 4 bytes Float 1 0 4 bytes Float number of rays 4 bytes Integer number of rays 16 bytes string Wavelength 4 bytes Float 0 0 4 bytes Float 0 0 4 bytes Integer 1 TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 21 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 5 1 2 Generating ASAP ray file from ttr file Selecting the menu item TRANSFORM ASAP RAY FILE DIS opens the dialog CREATE ASAP RAY FILE Create ASAP ray file Source paramete source fle DALT SMAbstandsmessunghT 1254201103150512_D240 ttr Luminous flux 1000 Ray number 589819744 Destination paramete Dest tile Start value ja 1000 IF You want to create more than one 2leb ASAP file from the same source file l with egual parame2. Operating Instructions Converter 801 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 Table of contents 1 INTRODUCTION coisiiisnucannnniisna 3 2 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF RAY CONVERSION 4 3 GENERAL PROGRAM FEATURES 2 22222220220000000n00an00nn 6 3 1 STARTOF PROGRAM unse peta ieee iy Soe ae esa ceo kee at 6 3 2 LOADING OF A TECHNOTEAM RAY FILE TTR cccccccssccsscccesccesscessseuscsessseeseesesenseees 6 3 3 COMMON OPTIONS FOR CONVERSION sseiietasttcots xt icelentedeuandeestvies E EE 7 3 3 1 Transformation of the coordinate system neeeeeeeennessseeessnnnnseneennnnnnnnnnnnnnnneennennnnennn 7 33 2 NANE PONS OS METON Sae EE EAE TE a E N hel tedee S 3 TDBAICHEROCESIN Genen arn Pre ae eer et re es eter et re meee mee aCe 11 DA BANG Order E AA E RE TEREN 2 DZ EECV OV ACIS essen 13 3 4 3 File structure Batch processing file sierran Ea EEE AA ENS 14 4 GENERATING LUMINOUS INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS 17 4 1 GENRATING TECHNOTEAM LVK TTL FROM TTR FILE ccccccccccesccesscessseeeseeess 17 4 2 UNK EXPORTITROM TIL PILE esse sale mencieiae aise acetals sh 18 kal EPON TONA ASCE E IN r e E E E A O 18 4 22 BDOT Oma LESA LOS nee each eal ee 19 ADS EXPO Omar LOT EW UINGG xeric ae 19 4 2 4 Luminous intensity of Projection Image Pf cccccscccccccccssseescccccceasesssceeseaeeeseeeeeas 19 5 GENERATING RAY FILES ssnin 21 5 1 AAPA ES DIS ee ee E EE 21 IJA SSIRUCLURE 0 ASAP TOY TLCS rae E E 21 5 1 2 Generating
3. 3 2 Loading of a TechnoTeam ray file ttr Using the menu item FILE OPEN the dialog Measurement results is opened By pressing the Load button in this dialog an Open File dialog is shown where an available TTR file can be selected and loaded 15 x File D LTS Abstandsmessung TT 2542011031 50512_D240 ttr Details of measurement Lid as graph Lid as table Rays of camera images 201103150512_D240 ttr 15 03 2011 05 19 23 rC planes 150 165 180 165 150 135 f Wl OBET I Ki aV 0 0 180 0 A j E 7 ss 2000 Fi u a 45 0 225 0 Ml AE gt ar oe 1500 2 N 4 90 0 270 0 None gt to Pe 135 0 315 0 None F Ao Wu Aloft SU o Default Print F a Printer 60 Print Save as J Standardisation cd klm Ok After loading the measuring data recorded by the Rigo801 program just as the measuring parameters and any information entered by the user before measurement are available on the tab windows Details of measurement Lid as graph Lid as table and Rays of camera images The documentation of the Rigo801 program contains a description of the contents of TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 6 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 the single tab windows from the dialog MEASUREMENT RESULTS This dialog has already been presented here i
4. ASAP dis 16 gt LucidShape ray SourceFile C RiGO measurements D2 D2R_Philips_35W_25x25 ttr Remark Remark TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 14 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 Start parameters for job 1 JODL Target file TargetFile C tmp test dis Parameters Target geometry Raytracer Job1 GeometryParam RayTracer ID Name of raytracer Id TTCylinder Parameters of raytracer Job1 GeometryParam RayTracer Param fLength 1 500000e 01 fRadius 5 000000e 02 fRotX 0 000000e 00 FROL Y 9 00000U0e 01 fRotZ 0 000000e 00 fTx 0 000000e 00 fTy 0 000000e 00 fTz 0 000000e 00 FVX 0 000000e 00 FEVY 0 000000e 00 fVz 1 000000e 00 l1Mode 1 1Unit 0 Orientation of target coordinate system Jobl PermuteAxisParam Base vectors unit vectors for X and Y axes 2 axis results from cross product BaseVectorX 1 0 0 BaseVectorY 0 1 0 Parameters of target format For the sake of completeness the sections of all formats are enlisted However only the ASAP parameters would be necessary here ASAP parameters Job1 AsapParam Starting value StartValue 0 Number of rays RayCount 1000000 Amplitude mode 0 gt fixed 1 gt variable AmplitudeMode 0 UNDE Of Leggi 0 gt ims T Gm 2S Inch 3 gt mM Unit 0 Target luminous flux lm LuminousFlux 2 876901e 03 Title Title Speos ERF parameters Job1 ERFParam Starting va
5. section SOURCE PARAMETER Destination paramete Dest fle In the dialog section TARGET PARAMETER a Stat vale 0 4 ee poo number of parameters can be fixed before IF you want to create more than one Rap number Teb conversion Speos file from the same source file With equal parameters then you have to use different start values In the field RAY NUMBER the number of Magritude rays to be generated can be entered fired standard amp variable Using the field LUMINOUS FLUX the total Conversion i KEN End ofeonverion luminous flux of all rays can be preset n the Se ne paa output file which might differ from the value anea of the source luminous flux Ready to start conversion So Lance Close dialogue In the dialog section MAGNITUDE the user can choose whether all rays shall have identical or different amplitudes This however does not influence the size of the file The algorithm for selecting rays from the file is well determined This means that a second conversion will yield the same ray data with the parameters being identical Wanting to TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 23 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 generate several independent RAY ray files from a TTR file the user can generate different files by presetting different starting values each time By pressing the START button conversion is started For this first the name of the targ
6. then each newly calculated luminous intensity value is based on a number of rays which on average is 25 times smaller than the values occurring in the original distribution 4 2 Lvk export from ttl file Via the menu item TRANSFORM LID EXPORT FROM TTL FILE the luminous intensity distribution can be converted by the Technoteam TTL format into various output formats Each output format is implemented by an own DLL library These use an open API interface documentation upon request Thus it is also possible to realize customized output formats without changing the main program x Format Lyk Ascii tet Setting Source file DALTS Abstandsmessung TT 254201 103150512 D240 ttl Select Destination file DALTSVabstandsmessung TT 254201 103150512 0240 Convert Close dialog In the selection list FORMAT of the dialog LID EXPORT all available export formats are listed By pressing the button SETTINGS a dialog is opened which supplies information about the chosen export format Here a parameterization of the export format chosen is possible too All presently available output formats are described below 4 2 1 Export format Ascii txt The Ascii export format constitutes a universal ASCII format which contains the entries of the TTL file in a readable form The output of the luminous intensity matrix rows theta columns phi first row phi angle fir
7. Alignmen Set rotation f Set symmetry axis a Nu T ur Tranzlat o ef aop ap 4 Z Cameraposition fr Show goniometer Ok Cancel TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 10 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 Using this dialog the position and the side lengths of a cuboid can be fixed WIDTH is the side length in the direction of Y DEPTH is the length in the direction of X and HEIGHT is the length in the direction of Z The explanations concerning the dialog elements DIMENSION UNIT and VOLUME MODE are given under the target geometry Sphere the elements ALIGNMENT TRANSLATION and aD VIEW under the target geometry Cylinder Minimum distance between axes xl Dimension unit ram bud Asis alignmen f Set rotation Set symmetry axis Flot jo Rat 0 Hat 0 Symmetry anis k T Translatio er arr arr al Maximum distances Use maximum distances Maximum distance to origin 100 Mas mum distance to axis 100 Cameraposition W Show goniometer Cancel Using this dialog the position of a virtual axis in the measurement space can be fixed In the dialog section MAXIMUM DISTANCE the rays can be selected If the selection box Use MAXIMUM DISTANCES is activated the input box MAXIMUM DISTANCE TO ORIGIN displays an upper threshold value for the smallest distance of eac
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9. level NG are calculated Start of conversion automatically Current time SDT EE If necessary the luminous intensity distribution can Bad ahaa TEE Fr be smoothed after calculation selection box LID SMOOTHING The filter widths for the smoothing Ready to start conversion filter can be fixed by the user via the fields CONVOLUTION WIDTH PHI and CONVOLUTION Cancel Close dialogue WIDTH THETA The filter widths indicate the filter size in the form of the number of Lvk cells at the equator of the spherical coordinate system After pressing the button START a file selection dialog is opened where the name of the target file can be entered Afterwards the conversion process is initiated By pressing the button CANCEL a conversion process already started can be terminated ahead of time When calculating a luminous distribution anew it is possible to work with an angular resolution which is smaller than the one used for measurement In many cases the number measuring errors increases considerably The reason for this is that each luminous intensity value of the distribution is calculated from a numberof rays which is distinctly smaller than that in the originally generated distribution If for example the luminous intensity distribution is calculated anew with an angular resolution of 0 5 from a 2 5 measurement TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 17 Operating Instruction Konverter 801
10. ASAP ray file from ttr file usssneeseeeessneensseeesnnnnnnnneennnnnnenneennnennn 22 3 1 3 Converting ASAP ray file into ASCII file usnecsseeeeeeeeansnsannneeeneesansnsnannnnnnnennnnnn 235 5 2 GENERATING SPEOS RAY FILE RAY FROM TTR FILE cccccceccceseceeeeseeecseeeeees 23 5 3 GENERATING LUCIDSHAPE RAY FILE RAY FROM TTR FILE ccccccceescessseeeseeues 24 5 4 GENERATING LIGHTTOOLS RAY FILES TXT FROM TTR FILE ccccceeccessseeseeues 24 IE GENERATING ZEMAX RAY FILE DAT FROM TTR FILE cccccsecccsescessceesseesseeues 24 5 6 GENRATING TRACEPRO RAY FILE SRC FROM TTR FILE cccccecccssceeesseesseeeseeues 24 5 7 GENERATING SIMULUX RAY FILE RAY FROM TTR FILE cccccccccseccesscessseeeseeues 25 6 OTHER CONVERSION FEATUREGS ccccccsesecssseeees 26 6 1 EXCHANGING BAYS RANDOMLY susanne 26 TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 2 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 1 Introduction By means of the goniometer type Rigo80l it is possible to generate ray files of measuring objects in the TechnoTeam specific ray data format file ending ttr Afterwards these files can be converted into other data formats using the Converter801 program Here the following formats are possible TechnoTeam luminous intensity distribution file ending ttl Ray files for ASAP Breault Research Organisation company file ending dis Ray files for LucidShape Brandenburg G
11. adius 000000e 01 Fat 0 000000e 00 Ok Cancel The dialog Target geometry offers a selection list of the raytracing libraries included and contains the current parameters for the target geometry chosen By pressing the button Settings the parameters for the respective geometries can be fixed In the box Save excluded rays the user may determine whether rays which do not intersect the target geometry shall be saved in a separate file Please note The data refer to the goniometer coordinate system i e they are valid before the rotation of the ray directions or also ray loci into the result coordinate system Presently the following geometries are available for raytracing Camera sphere As mentioned earlier this setting is a default setting All rays start from the respective camera positions and spread out away from the centre of the camera sphere Sphere settings 2 x Dimension unit mm Yolumenmodus Sphere paramete Radius 10 H Centre aE sfo o Cancel Using this dialog dialog section SPHERE PARAMETER the position and the radius of a sphere can be fixed The unit of measurement for the indications of size and orientation of the following dialog sections can be modified via the combined box Dimension unit If the selection box VOLUME MODE is activated then the starting points of those rays which TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 9 Operatin
12. ams often read in ray files sequentially and allow the user to abort simulation ahead of time In the case of sequential ray data however the simulation result is not representative for the total amount of rays If the calculation result obtained after the early abort of the calculation process shall largely correspond with the result of the complete calculation with slightly inferior accuracy then the rays in a file must be arranged randomly 1 e t must not be possible to draw from the position of a ray in the file a statistically significant conclusion concerning the place of capture or also the direction of the rays Via the menu item TRANSFORM EXCHANGE RAYS RANDOMLY it is possible to generate from an already existing ray file at a later time a new ray file in which the rays are arranged randomly When selecting this menu item the dialog EXCHANGE RAYS RAMDOMLY is opened source file D ALTS Abstandsmessung T 12542011037 41457 dis Dest file DALTS Abstandsmessung TT 254201 10503151 4 dis Start of conversion Current time End of conversion 13 30 26 13 30 29 13 37 43 When pressing the START button in the dialog the name of the source file and also the name of the target file are queried before conversion starts Using the CANCEL button an already running conversion process can be stopped ahead of time When conversion is finished the dialog can be quitted by pressing the CLOSE button
13. era is at the top for 0 180 it is at the bottom e Inthe goniometer position 0 0 90 the camera is on the positive side of the x axis as shown e In the goniometer position 90 0 90 the camera is on the positive side of the y axis e Ifthe lamp suspension is fixed at the top then is defined in the range from 0 to 360 If the lamp suspension is fixed at the bottom then is defined in the range from 180 to 180 Coordinate conversion The orientation of the coordinate system of the rays or also of the luminous intensity distribution is often linked with the object of measurement and its normal position This means that the raw data available in the goniometer coordinate system must be transferred to the coordinate system of the object of measurement The necessary coordinate conversion can be effected in the program via the menu item OPTIONS TRANSFORMATION COORDINATE SYSTEM When selecting this menu item the following dialog is opened Destination coordinate system Orientation of the destination coordinate system bo the goniometer coordinate zustem Rotation Roax p 0 Rote 0 razr 0 Translation Es o zu Ty ram fo Tz mm E Cancel The parameters set of the coordinate conversion indicate the position of the target coordinate system towards the goniometer coordinate system First rotation takes place then the translation of the coordinate system The settings are
14. es 5 5 Generating a Zemax ray file dat from a ttr file Via the menu item TRANSFORM ZEMAX RAY FILE DAT the dialog for generating LightTools ray files is activated The function mode of this dialog is identical to the ASAP dialog cf Chapter 5 1 2 Generating ASAP ray file from ttr file 5 6 Generating a TracePro ray file src from a ttr file Via the menu item TRANSFORM TRACEPRO RAY FILE SRC the dialog for generatingn TracePro ray files The function mode of this dialog is identical to the ASAP dialog cf Chapter 5 1 2 Generating ASAP ray file from ttr file TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 24 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 5 7 Generating a SimuLux ray file ray from a ttr file Via the menu item TRANSFORM SIMULUX RAY FILE RAY the dialog for generating SimuLux ray files is activated The function mode of this dialog is identical to the ASAP dialog cf Chapter 5 1 2 Generating ASAP ray file from ttr file TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 25 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 6 Other conversion features 6 1 Exchanging rays randomly At first the ray data are output in the order in which they are recorded during measurement In the ttr file closely neighboring ray data result from neighboring camera positions when the cameras are moved and therefore have similar directions Simulation progr
15. et file must be fixed in a file selection dialog then conversion is started Pressing the CANCEL button can stop an already running conversion process 5 3 Generating a LucidShape ray file ray from a ttr file RO etic RE SEORM Source paramete LUCIDSHAPE RAY FILE RAY ees the dialog Source file DALTS Abstandsmessung T 1254201 10815051 2_D240 th for generating LucidShape ray files is Bee Dan Raynumber 98981374 activated The function mode of this dialog a is identical to the ASAP dialog cf Chapter Dest file 0 Generating an ASAP ray file from a ttr Stat vale 0 ee file except for a missing title or comment which cannot be included in the file IF Pou want to create more than one Far number LucidShape file from the same source file with equal parameters then you have to use different stark values Magnitude f fixed i variable Conversion End of conversion a Ray number Current time m Luminous flux Start of conversion Ready to start conversion 5 4 Generating LightTools ray files txt from a ttr file Via the menu item TRANSFORM LIGHTTOOLS RAY FILE TXT the dialog for generating LightTools ray files is activated The function of this dialog is identical to the ASAP dialog cf Chapter 5 1 2 Generating ASAP ray file from ttr file Please note that the LightTools ray files are output in the ASCII format which may result in very large fil
16. g Instruction Konverter 801 intersect the raytracing body do not lie on the body surface any more Instead they are calculated as mean value of the two intersection points 1 e they lie within the volume Cylinder settings all Dimension unit mm Volume mode Cylinde Radus 200 Length 2000 Algnmen f Set rotation f Set symmetry axis Riot 0 Rov 0 Aot 2 E Symmetry anis ka T zZ Translatio Tx 0 H Ty 0 Tz 0 r Cameraposition MW Show goniometer Cancel Using this dialog the position the radius and the length of a cylinder can be fixed For the orientation of the cylinder the modes SET ROTATION and SET SYMMETRY AXIS are available As for the rotation note that the cylinder axis is rotated from the X axis n the order X Y Z After the rotation of the cylinder axis the translation is effected by the given parameters TX TY and TZ The dialog section 3D VIEW shows the resulting position of the cylinder in the goniometer coordinate system This view can be modified both by means of the mouse left hand and right hand mouse button and via the button CAMERA POSITION The dialog elements DIMENSION UNIT and VOLUME MODE have already been explained for the target geometry Sphere Cuboid Settings OOOO I O xl Dimension unit mm M volume mode 3D Vie Cubol Width Depth Height 1000 1000 2000
17. h ray to the coordinate origin whereas the input box MAXIMUM DISTANCE TO AXIS displays an upper threshold for the smallest distance of each ray to the virtual axis The dialog element DIMENSION UNIT has already been explained for the target geometry Sphere and the elements AXIS ALIGNMENT TRANSLATION and 3D VIEW for the target geometry Cylinder 3 4 Batch processing The batch processing feature allows a number of conversion orders to be collected parameterized saved and finally processed This makes parameterization before each single conversion superfluous Any saved batch processing files can be modified or used several times TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 11 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 3 4 1 Editing jobs After selecting the menu item 10 xi File Edit Conversion IRANSFORM BATCH a PROCESSING the dialog Edit No Dest format_ Sowcefie Comment 7 oe 7 1 Simulux ray file ray 201103150512 D240 ttr job list 1s opened Via the pop up 2 TechnoTeam Lid file t 201103150512_D240 ttr menu FILE existing batch 3 Zemax ray file dat 201103150512 D240 99 9 projects can be loaded menu item FILE OPEN or also saved Parameter Konvertierung menu items FILE SAFE and ee eel FILE SAVE AS J Dest geometry Destination coordinate system Zemax ray file Parameter New co
18. he parameters being identical In order to generate from a TechnoTeam ray data record a second record which is independent of the first one other ray selection and order a modification can be made in the field START VALUE Upon pressing the button START first the file name of the target file is queried before conversion is started In the dialog section CONVERSION the user can follow the progress of conversion Not only are the starting time the current and the estimated end time displayed but also the number of the rays generated as well as their luminous flux If the number of rays or also the corresponding luminous flux are considerably smaller than the values preset in the dialog section TARGET PARAMETER this may indicate that the light exit body has either been chosen too small or wrongly positioned cf menu items OPTIONS TARGET GEOMETRY or also OPTIONS TARGET COORDINATE SYSTEM The cause of this is that the raytracing of rays from the position of the camera to the surface of the light exit body does often not reach the body These rays which cannot be utilized n such a case will be dismissed by the program TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 22 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 5 1 3 Converting ASAP ray file into ASCII file Using the menu item TRANSFORM ASAP DIS gt ASCII TXT an existing ASAP file can be converted into an ASCII file This function is ad
19. lue StartValue 0 Number of blocks BlockCount 1 Number of rays Block 1 if BlockCount gt 2 continue with RayCount2 RayCount1 1000000 Amplitude mode 0 gt fixed 1 gt variable AmplitudeMode 0 Fr UNI OF LERGERS 0 gt mn doe gt see 2 gt aeh mn Unit 0 Target luminous flux lm LuminousFlux 2 876901e 03 Comment Comment TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau _15 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 Flag if after conversion another file with randomized rays shall be generated RandomSwap 0 Hella RWR parameters Job1 RWRParam Starting value StartValue 0 Number of blocks BlockCount 1 Number of rays blocks BlockSize 1000000 Target luminous flux lm LuminousFlux 2 876901e 03 Comment Comment Technoteam LVK TTL parameters Job1 TTLParam Angular step width C levels Dc 2 500000e 00 Angular step width luminous intensities Dg 2 500000e 00 Continue with parameter for second and third job Job2 BaseParam TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 16 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 4 Generating luminous intensity distributions 4 1 Generating TechnoTeam Lvk ttl from ttr file In the program Rigo801 regardless of whether a ray file shall be additionally saved or not a corresponding luminous intensity distribution file ending ttl is calculated during each measurement In doing so the coordinate
20. luminous intensity generates an image projection of the absolute luminous intensity matrix in the PF format Picture Float readable by means of LMK Labsoft software The output is effected in the full sphere angular range The image columns correspond to the C levels the image lines correspond to the y levels of the luminous intensity distribution TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 19 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 Filter name File extension PR Version 0 Date Baoa Company Technoteam Bildverarbeitung mbH 07565 Description Filter for calculation of luminous intensity projection image from TTL luminous intensity Filter generate one file flename _kartesisch pf PF lmage luminous intensity matris cartesian Example of a projection image Generation i performed only in measurement range F Cancel TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 20 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 5 Generating ray files 5 1 ASAP ray files dis 5 1 1 Structure of ASAP ray files The ASAP file format can be utilized for a big variety of tasks In general it consists of consecutive data records of identical length but possibly different importance The files generated by the TechnoTeam company present the following structure e Each data record has a length of 28 bytes e The file header in front of the actual ray data consists of 5 data records e Afterwards the ray data are arranged
21. made by pressing the Accept button If the dialog is called again also after restarting the program the settings made last are displayed as default settings 3 3 2 Starting points of the rays As already mentioned in Chapter 2 Basic principles of ray conversion the starting points of the rays are found on the sphere where the camera is positioned during measurement However in order to be able to use the ray data of the object of measurement it is often useful to lay the starting points of the rays on a body surface which is smaller than the surface of the camera sphere For this purpose it is necessary to effect raytracing up to the piercing point with a given body TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 8 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 The calculation of the points of intersection with a target geometry is carried out via an open API interface documentation available upon request by means of DLL libraries The target geometry is selected using the menu item OPTIONS TARGET GEOMETRY Destination geometry x Dest geometry Cylinder Setting Version fi D Date 20 1 0 2004 Company Technoteam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Description Ray tracing filter for cylinder geometry If the volume mode iz activated the ray starting points are get to the middle of the two intersection points of the cylinder geoerntrie F Farameter Hame Value Volume mode Length 2 000000e 00 R
22. mbH company file ending ray Ray files for LightTools lighttools company file ending txt Ray files for Zemax ZEMAX Development Corporation file ending dat Ray files in the ASCII format for test and comparison purposes file ending txt Ray files for TracePro Lambda Research Corporation USA file ending src Ray files for Speos Optis company France file ending ray Ray files for SimuLux infotec soft u hardware GmbH company file ending ray In addition the generated TechnoTeam luminous intensity distributions ttl can be exported into the following formats ASCII files universal text readable format file ending txt IES files IES LM 63 02 Illuminating Engineering Society file ending ies Eulumdat format originally Light Consult Inc file ending ldt Luminous intensity of projection image TechnoTeam company for LMK Labsoft file ending pf The program Converter801 can be installed on any computer as no access to the goniometer s hardware is necessary The requirements placed on the hardware of the converting computer are considerably lower than those placed on the goniometer computer Only the converting time depends on the quality of the computer At first the documentation contains two general chapters Chapter 2 Basic principles of ray conversion describes in a general way the measuring principle applied for ray data acquisition whereas in Chapter 3 General program features
23. n connection with the execution of a measurement After loading the desired ray file the dialog can be closed using the OK button Now the ray file is available as source file for all subsequent conversions Using the dialog it is also possible to read again and edit TechnoTeam luminous intensity distribution files ttl As no ray files can be generated from these files the menu items for converting in the pop up menu CONVERT remain locked after loading a TTL file 3 3 Common options for conversion 3 3 1 Conversion of the coordinate system Goniometer coordinate system During measurement the ray data are filed in a coordinate system in which the position of the axes X Y Z orients itself towards the axes of rotation and U of the goniometer The two axes of rotation are not commutative to each other In any case it holds The axis changes the position of the 0 axis of the goniometer Due to the movement of the two axes a spherical coordinate system is fixed in which the following relations between the single quantities are valid x rsin V cos y rsin sin z rcost 0 P Lamp suspension at the top Lamp suspension at the bottom TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 7 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 The above figures show the position of the camera in this coordinate system just as the various 0 domains as a function of the configuration of the lamp suspension e For 0 0 the cam
24. nversion jobs can be Dest gsomety Cubod SSOSCSCSiY Sl inserted via the menu item EDIT Feces NEw JOB or via the context Version nn menu of the right hand mouse Date 2008 06 16 button The di al o g NEW JOB c6 i S Company Technoteam Bildverarbeitung GmbH http www technoteam de eas D ipti de is activated th tarti int tt opened where the source file TTR engere geoemtrie ray file the target format and z an optional comment can be d Parameter Name Value sc ecte z Volume mode Depth 2 000000e 02 Afterwards the parameters Height 3 000000e 02 available for the target format BEE 000000000 Rot Y 0 000000e 00 v chosen are displayed in the dialog section PARAMETER CONVERSION Here also the 5 fil poos D240 o target file is indicated owce we f201103150512_D240 ttr Peai Dest fomst 0000 For a new entry the par ameters of Conme ai wer entry in the list are ar Cancel adopted The indication of the target coordinate axes has already been explained in Chapter 3 3 1 Conversion of the coordinate system and the indication of the target geometry for the starting points of the rays is given in Chapter 3 3 2 Starting points of the rays During batch processing however the parameters are not taken from the central application configuration but from the data contained in the batch processing file TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 12 Operating Instructi
25. on Konverter 801 The input parameters for the various ray data formats are explained in the corresponding paragraphs of Chapters 4 and 5 In addition there is the option RANDOMIZE RAY DATA by means of which a random rearrangement of the rays in the target file can be effected cf Chapter 6 1 Randomize rays The batch processing parameters are saved in an ASCII file for details see chapter 3 4 3 File structure of batch processing file 3 4 2 Executing jobs Batch projects can be executed via the menu item CONVERSION START In the dialog Execute jobs the current conversion parameters just as the conversion progress are displayed during job execution For each ray file a protocol file is generated in the ASCII format which contains all conversion parameters and results The file name of the protocol file is composed of the name of the current target file the file extension ext and the postfix log in the following way Name of job_ext_log txt Auf Edit job list Fil 1E3 File Edit Conversion Jobs No Dest format TechnoT eam Lid file Zemax ray file dat SimuLux ray file ray ttl 20110315051 2_D240 ttr 20110315051 2_D240 ttr 201103150512 D240 ttr Parameter Konvertierung Dest file Select Dest geometry Destination coordinate system Zemax ray file Parameter goeeeessesseceesesssoseceeg Ra
26. port format LDT Eulumdat Einstellungen Lid settings IES Options JES LM 63 1 995 2 x Format Ok Abbrechen In the tab window IES OPTIONS the format specification can be set in the combobox FORMAT and via the selection box ROTATE 90 the rotation of the C levels by 90 compatible with the Anglo American standard EULUMDAT is a format for exchanging photometric data concerning the luminous intensity distribution of light sources dating from the year 1990 The typical file ending is ldt In continental Europe this format has become the industrial standard for conveying photometric data Here the Lvk values are contained as cd klm normalized values without digits after the decimal point As the format does not support any test lamps but only the single lamps contained in a luminaire the test lamps contained in the ttl file are combined to form a virtual lamp by summing up the luminous flux If no measuring lamp is available number of test lamps 0 a virtual lamp testlamp is specified as lamp with a measured luminous flux equal to the luminous flux of the luminaire operating efficiency ratio of the luminaire 100 Similarly to the IES export format it is possible to set in the tab window LID SETTINGS optional smoothing and also an optional modification of the measuring grid 4 2 4 Luminous intensity of projection image pf The export filter projection image of
27. position 8 radius of the camera sphere of the camera at the moment of the image capture e The direction of the ray results from the viewing direction of the camera at the moment of the image capture and also from the viewing direction of the image point with regard to the optical axis of the camera e The luminous flux portion of a ray 1s calculated from several factors such as the number of rays in an image the total luminous flux of the current image as well as the size of the spherical segment which corresponds with the current camera capture The region of the spherical segment is calculated from the angular distances of the current capture position to the four directly adjacent capture positions For the conversion into other formats the following aspects must be taken into consideration e The position of the target coordinate system may be coupled to the measuring object and its useful position Thus it might be necessary to change the position of the coordinate TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 4 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 system in which the coordinates and the directions of the rays are given out towards the coordinate system of the measuring object e In order to be able to use the ray data of the measuring object it is often useful to lay the starting points of the rays on a body surface which is smaller than that of the spherical surface of the camera positions For this purpose raytracing up to the in
28. st column theta angle is effected only for the measured angular range x sl zi Filter name Lvk Ascii tet Trennzeichen File extension txt Dezimalzeichen Version fi u Ok Abbrechen Date je 10 2004 Company IT echnoteam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Description Filter for converting from TTL luminous intensity Intensity distribution format to universal ACSI format Filter generate one file filename tst parameter list luminous Intensity matris rowe Theta cols Phi Generation is performed only in measurement range ral Cancel TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 18 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 4 2 2 Export format IES ies The IES format is the synonym for several downwards compatible formats defined by the Illuminating Engineering Society for photometric data and the information pertaining to them The format generated here orients itself towards the IES LM 63 02 standard In this format the luminous intensity is not normalized but it is contained as absolute luminous intensity Finstellungen Lid settings IES Options 2 x Smoathin Active Phi convolution width f Theta convolution width E Change angular increments Horizontal increment Vertical increment Abbrechen In the tab window LID SETTINGS optional smoothing and also an optional modification of the measuring grid can be set 4 2 3 Ex
29. system of the goniometer and the angular resolution of the measurement are automatically used for determining the C levels and the distance of the luminous intensities within the C levels The format of the TechnoTeam luminous intensity distributions ttl has already been described in the Chapter Rigo801 File formats of the Rigo Measurement Manual Using the program Converter801 it is possible to generate luminous intensity distributions with other parameters from the ray file at a later time e By applying the menu item OPTIONS TARGET GEOMETRY a conversion of the goniometer coordinate system is effected before a TTL conversion e Other angular resolutions between and within the C levels can be set e The Lvk luminous intensity distribution curve can optionally be smoothed Create TechnoTeam TIL file Lid The dialog for calculating a luminous intensity Source fle PACTS Abstandamessung T T2R20TIOG1SDSTZ D distribution from a ray data record can be accessed Dest file Le via the menu item I RANSFORM TECHNOTEAM LUMINOUS INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION TTL M faa De i i h l In the section Dc the distance between two C i E gt i levels can be set In the field DG the distance igsmectind 7 between the luminous intensities within a C level can E BR be chosen From these two entries the number of the E EE ER e C levels Mc and the number of the luminous intensities for each C
30. ters then you Title Length uni ff mm i inch f cm fm have to use different start values f 32205 Luminous Flux Fay number E variable Start of conversion End of conversion Current time Ray number Luminous flux Ready to start conversion Lance Close dialogue The dialog section SOURCE PARAMETER displays some essential information concerning the ray file loaded before v a the menu item FILE OPEN Before conversion is effected some parameters can be fixed in the dialog section TARGET PARAMETER In the field RAY NUMBER the number of rays to be generated can be entered Using the field LUMINOUS FLUX the total luminous flux of all rays in the output file can be fixed which might differ from that of the source luminous flux In the field TITLE a text comprising 24 characters can be entered which will then be included in the ray file In the dialog section MAGNITUDE the user can fix whether all rays shall have identical or different amplitudes In doing so however the file size is not changed as the ASAP format does not specially support the unity ray mode In the dialog section LENGTH UNIT the user can fix the unit in which the starting points of the rays shall be output The conversion of the TechnoTeam rays into ASAP rays represents a well determined algorithm This means that a second conversion will yield the same ray data with t
31. tersection point of the rays on the given body light exit surface target geometry 1s necessary e The number of rays in the target file to be generated differs from that in the source file In general the desired number of rays is smaller than the one which is available e The amplitudes of the rays must be converted In the source files amplitudes of different sizes are employed some target file formats require the output of unit rays The position of the target coordinate system and also the position of the starting points of the rays constitute global parameters of ray data conversion These settings are described in Chapter 3 3 Common options for conversion TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 5 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 3 General program features 3 1 Start of program The program can be started via the Windows start menu e g Start Program TechnoTeam gt Converter801 Alternatively icons with the corresponding links can be installed on the desktop and used for starting the program by a double click ff Transformation of ray files o x Inthe pop up menu FILE a ray file can be Fie Options Transform Help loaded for conversion via the menu entry FILE OPEN e In the pop up menu OPTIONS settings can be made which are independent of the respective output format e Jn the pop up menu TRANSFORM the desired target format can be chosen and conversion can be effected
32. the handling of the converting program as well as those program features which are valid for all conversion formats are explained In Chapters 4 Generating luminous intensity distributions and 5 Generating ray files the export into the formats supported is described TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 3 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 2 Basic principles of ray conversion During measurement the camera was moved on a spherical surface around the measuring object by rotating the two goniometer axes and thus allowing luminance images of the measuring object to be made in very many different positions From each luminance image a ray bundle 1s calculated in the coordinate system of the measuring object by using the geometry and the position of the camera The ray bundles are saved sequentially in a special format in a TechnoTeam ray file To each ray the information concerning the initial point the direction and the amplitude of the ray is assigned Strahlen N Messobjekt The structure of the ray files generated file ending ttr results from the algorithm by means of which images have been captured and processed during measurement e The coordinate system in which the rays are saved is a Cartesian coordinate system where the directions of the single axes X Y and Z result from the angular definitions for and 0 of the goniometer e The starting point of a ray was calculated from the
33. tor Z 0 Parameters conversion Starting value 0 Target light flux 274 58 lm Number of rays 1000000 Title Amplitude fixed Unit of length mm Randomize rays no Results conversion Starting time 18 01 05 End time 18 02 18 Portion light flux 99 35 3 Portion number of rays 99 35 5 Batch processing files are saved as ASCII files rcj RiIGO Converter Job in the INI file format In the following the file structure is described in great detail so as to allow manual modifications or also the setting up of a job file by means of a text editor The following conventions must be respected e The entry must be single spaced e All terms given in square brackets are denominated as sections e Variables are declared with a name a subsequent equality sign and the value e Blank lines are permitted e Comments must be given in an extra line and should be started with a non ambiguous sign such as or The batch processing file below shows an example of the sections variables and comments File header Converter job Number of job entries Number 3 Section for first job base parameters Jobl BaseParam Format 1 gt Technoteam Lvk ttl 8 gt HELLA rwr 64 gt Zemax dat 256 gt Speos ray 4 gt ERF erf 32 gt LIgNCTOOLS Fa CXE 128 gt TracePro src 512 gt S muLux ray A AH Format 2 Source file 2 gt
34. vantageous mainly for developers for debugging who wish to import the ASAP files into their own programs When selecting the menu item the name of the ASAP source file and that of the ASCII target file will be queried Afterwards the user is asked whether also the rays themselves shall be included in the ASCII file Otherwise the ASCII file only contains the header information of the ASAP file Example of an ASCII file generated Recordl ASAP ray file with 4 7 28 Bytes je Record Reeord2 N Record3 Tot FLUX 3 035e 02 XYZABCF MM Record4 Ray Number 1 000e 00 1 000e 04 10000 Record5 Wavelength 0 000e 00 0 000e 00 1 Record6 and following ones Z A 476e 02 767e 03 1 325e 02 8 249e 01 725e 02 634e 01 978e 02 476e 02 767e 03 1 325e 02 8 968e 01 615e 02 389e 01 978e 02 2 486e 02 086e 01 1 302e 02 7 625e 01 494e 02 454e 01 506e 04 2 486e 02 086e 01 1 302e 02 8 242e 01 087e 01 265e 01 506e 04 2 486e 02 086e 01 1 302e 02 9 263e 01 624e 02 738e 01 506e 04 End of file reached 5 2 Generating Speos ray file ray from ttr file Selecting the menu item TRANSFORM SPEOS RAY FILE RAY opens the dialog Speos ray file Similarly to the dialog CREATE ASAP RAY Source paramete FILE some essential information concerning Source file DALTS Abstandsmessung TT254201 1031 BO512_D240 ttr Luminous fat ig Ray umber agasiaraa the ray file loaded is displayed in the dialog
35. y number 1e6 Luminous flux 1000 Magnitude fixed variable Random generator fo Randomize ray data Execute jobs x Jobs No Fomat SimuLux ray fil e ray 201103150512_D240 ttr TechnoTeam Lid file ttl 201103150512 D240 ttr Zemax ray file dat 201103150512 _D240 ttr D LTS Abstandsmessung T D LTS4bstandsmessung TT D LTS Abstandsmessung TT El Conversion Current job Lz Conversion SimuLuxrayfle Target Luminous flux 1000 Target ray number 1000000 Current ligt flux 144 Current ray number 144 00 Start 10 15 28 Current time 10 15 39 End 10 16 44 Protocol TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH Ilmenau 13 Operating Instruction Konverter 801 Example protocol Ray data conversion Job file D tmp unnamed rcj Job Number 1 Source file D M1434_cam_sphere_2_500x2_500 ttr Target format ASAP ray file dis Target file D tmp test2 dis Comment Light flux source file 274 58 Number of rays source file 242600153 Parameters target geometry Targe geometry cylinder Length 1 500000e 01 Radius 5 000000e 02 Rot X 0 000000e 00 Rot Y 9 000000e 01 Rot 2 0 000000e 00 Tx 0 000000e 00 Ty 0 000000e 00 Tz 0 000000e 00 Vx 0 000000e 00 Vy 0 000000e 00 Vz 1 000000e 00 3 4 3 File structure of batch processing file Parameters axes Basis vector X 1 Basis vector Y 0 Basis vec
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