Freeform Surface Parameterization for Illumination

William Cassarly

doi:10.1364/FREEFORM.2013.FT2B.3

Renewable Energy and the Environment
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
paper FT2B.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FREEFORM.2013.FT2B.3

Freeform Surface Parameterization for Illumination

William Cassarly

Freeform Optics 2013

Tucson, Arizona United States
3–7 November 2013
ISBN: 978-1-55752-986-2

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Illumination: Design Methods 1 (FT2B)

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Abstract

Freeform surfaces used in illumination often use NURBS surfaces, but conventional optics use surface parameterizations like XY or Zernike polynomials. A comparison between NURBS and XY/Zernike is provided.

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