Simplify and accelerate your product development process. Let us help you with virtual prototyping.
Eclat Digital is a technology company specialized in predictive optical simulation and physically accurate appearance modeling for complex products and materials.
We develop Ocean™, our optical simulation software for virtual prototyping applications, providing predictive, quantitative and physically true images and optical data for reliable validation. This technology allows our clients to converge to the best solution faster, limiting the cost and need for physical samples.
It guides your R&D developments, increases your process efficiency and reduces your product time-to-market. Our technology aims to provide lighting simulation solutions to a wide range of industries: architecture, transportation, medtech, product design, lighting…
We turn optical physics into fast and reliable digital prototyping workflows in the rapidly evolving environment of product development:
Yet most existing tools still fall short when it comes to:
These limitations lead to costly trial-and-error, late design changes, and physical prototypes that fail to meet expectations. Ocean™ was created to address this gap.
Ocean™ is built on a clear technical principle: physically true modelling, no visual shortcuts, no approximations. This enables to simulate optical behavior and appearance as they really are, from micro-components to full optical systems, under real-world lighting and viewing conditions.
Ocean™ enables industrial teams to:
It supports design-focused digital workflows, where simulation informs decisions instead of approximating outcomes.
Our 3 pillars for predictive simulation:
We combine advanced technology with committed, customized support to ensure reliable outcomes in real industrial contexts.
We follow a physics-based simulation chain designed for industrial validation. This workflow applies from individual components to complete optical systems, to fulfill our core promises:
Validate appearance and performance
Accelerate design iterations
Get the physical prototype right the first time
Ocean™ is not designed for artistic visualization or entertainment rendering, but for industrial validation where accuracy and traceability are required.
It is primarily used by engineers and scientists working with optical data, material measurements, and validation workflows, in contexts where visual approximation is not sufficient and decisions must rely on physically accurate results.
Ocean™ also supports design, CMF, and innovation teams when appearance and optical performance need to be validated early, under real-world lighting and viewing conditions.
Ocean™ is developed and validated by a multidisciplinary R&D team with strong expertise in optical physics, material science, and appearance modeling. Our scientific leadership includes a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), R&D engineers and Operation Manager with multiple PhD-level profiles, ensuring rigorous deployment and reproducibility in industrial contexts.
This organization ensures that all models, simulations, and methodologies used in Ocean™, as well as technical content published on this website, are scientifically grounded, validated, and traceable. Ocean™ and its underlying methods are also referenced and validated through scientific publications and industrial research work, which are summarized on our dedicated Scientific sources & references page.
Their mission: Develop, modernize, and improve Ocean™ software from UX to algorithm performance.
Their mission: Create, adapt and optimize 3D data and material models.
Their mission: Support customer projects and develop new Ocean™ features.
Their mission: Ensure customer satisfaction and increase company visibility.
We design projects according to your needs
We mix profiles and skills to meet your expectations
We are experts in Optics and Software Engineering
We like being challenged and deal with a variety of topics
Eclat Digital offers its customers high-end services in the field of virtual prototyping. With a team of engineers, graphic designers and researchers specialized in physics, Eclat Digital offers a high level of expertise throughout the customer projects.
Eclat Digital develops virtual prototyping software called Ocean™. This software uses real data from optical characterization and bases its calculations on well-established laws of optical physics. As a result, Ocean™ enables the calculation of highly predictive renderings without the need for physical samples.
Ocean™ is an optical simulation software, not a visual rendering tool. It focuses on physically accurate optical behavior and visual perception, not visual approximation.
Ocean™ reduces physical prototyping by validating appearance and performance early, helping teams get the first prototype right.
Industries where appearance and optical performance are critical, such as automotive, architecture, materials, coatings, plastics, glass, and other premium products.
Ocean™ is an optical simulation tool designed for predictive validation. Unlike rendering engines, it focuses on physically accurate behavior and perception rather than visual realism alone.
At Eclat Digital, we offer you the opportunity to develop your skills in a dynamic start-up environment.
