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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2020
Basf Coatings Gmbh, Münster, DE;
Markus Mundus, Münster, DE;
Thomas Kantimm, Münster, DE;
BASF COATINGS GMBH, Muenster, DE;
Abstract
Described herein is a computer-implemented method for simulating texture features of a n-layer target coating, the method including at least the steps of: a) providing known real geometrical properties and known individual ingredients with known real material properties; b) modelling the n-layer target coating in a virtual environment; c) virtually tracing rays of light from one or more light sources towards an aim region defined on a surface of the n-layer target coating; d) virtually collecting rays of light that interacted with the n-layer target coating; e) virtually determining, at least one of an angular, a spectral and a spatial distribution of intensity of the rays of light re-emitted from or reflected by the n-layer target coating; and f) evaluating the determined distribution(s) of intensity and outputting, by an output device, at least one image based on the evaluation.