3D Lighting Simulation

For light­ing projects we always try and use IES data files where pos­si­ble. This gives us the most accu­rate results when ren­der­ing an image. These IES files are imported to our core mod­el­ing soft­ware 3D Stu­dio Max and applied to vir­tual pho­to­met­ric lights to cre­ate a real­is­tic sim­u­la­tion of light dis­tri­b­u­tion in the model.

The IES data for­mat is an inter­na­tion­ally accepted data for­mat used for describ­ing the light dis­tri­b­u­tion of lumi­nar­ies. It can be used in numer­ous light­ing design, cal­cu­la­tion and sim­u­la­tion programs.

A good exam­ple of a light­ing sim­u­la­tion can be seen here