The Ocean™ 2024 new release includes several enhancements and new features designed to improve usability and performance. The updated Crop Instrument enables precise rendering of selected zones for compositing, while the new Watermark Filter simplifies adding logos to result images.
The human vision module now features a glare analysis tool that evaluates light distribution and glare levels using established indices like UGR, DGP, and GR. Additional upgrades include support for four fisheye camera projections and a per-source glare rating capability for detailed lighting assessments.
Moreover Eclat Digital’s technical teams have focused on enhancing the core of Ocean™ to improve stability, image processing, performance and reliability of results.
Glare Analysis Tool
The human vision module of our path tracing software has been enhanced in OceanTM 2024 with a glare analysis tool.
This tool evaluates the brightness, contrast, and distribution of light sources for glare, a significant measure of light perception comfort. Glare analysis can be used in a wide range of projects such as building and transportation design, to enhance visibility, comfort, and safety by understanding how light affects humans.
Constructing a universal model for discomfort glare is made difficult by the subjective nature of psychological glare and varying lighting conditions. To constrain our glare analysis to the most relevant metrics, we choose to focus on three indices: UGR (unified glare rating), DGP (daylight glare probability) and GR (glare rating). It is accepted to use these indices for different specific conditions: UGR – for indoor analysis with artificial lightning; DGP – for indoor analysis with daylight conditions and direct sun; GR – for outdoor workplace condition evaluation.
To further enhance versatility, our glare analysis tool supports four distinct fisheye camera projections—equidistant, equisolid, orthogonal, and stereographic—providing flexibility and precision for a variety of lighting and visibility assessments. In addition, beyond the standard whole-scene glare rating, the tool includes a unique per-source glare rating feature. This feature allows the specific impact of each light source on overall glare to be assessed, offering detailed insights that support optimal lighting design solutions.
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Watermark filter
The watermark filter enables users to easily incorporate their own logo as a watermark onto the result image, ensuring brand recognition and professional presentation. Customization of your output is enabled by this feature, ensuring image integrity is maintained and making it suitable for sharing visuals in presentations, reports, or collaborative projects with consistent branding.
Crop Instrument
The new Crop Instrument region option in Ocean™ 2024 allows to render a selected zone directly within the last image buffer. With this feature you can isolate and visualize specific changes or improvements made to a part of the image without affecting the entire scene. It provides greater flexibility for fine-tuning visual elements and evaluating modifications.
As part of the Crop tool, the “Merge Filter” enables the user to merge the modified zone with the original render. You will be able to visualize the changes within the global image and use this result as the final output.
Improved performances
The core of OceanTM virtual prototyping software has recently integrated new libraries, improving performance and advancing image processing capabilities. As a result, it now uses the stability of OpenCV and the efficiency of Eigen to ensure more reliable results and meet the growing needs of professional workflows.
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