The modelling of caustics to produce a projection image

1Note Issue Department, Reserve Bank of Australia 2Disney Research, Zurich 3Dartmouth College

In Optical Security Documents Conference, 2018

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Silica master (left) containing four PBI lens arrays and the projected images from a Samsung smartphone flash. The lens array, applied to polymer substrate is illuminated by an iPhone 6s flash (middle) and by the sun (right). The projected image can be clearly resolved.
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The Projection-Based Image is a new banknote security feature that projects a desired image when an array of microlenses embossed into the banknote substrate is exposed to a light source. The feature is designed computationally to make the projected image difficult to discern by inspection of the lens structures, and to accommodate a range of light sources, allowing wide accessibility to users with a simple mobile phone flash. The projected image is formed from a collection of Gaussian-shaped caustic profiles, each arising due to light refracting through a single microlens.

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Luke Maguire, Marios Papas, Wojciech Jarosz, Phillip Fox, Greg Dicinoski, Maria Olivares. The modelling of caustics to produce a projection image. Optical Security Documents Conference, January 2018. 
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    author = "Maguire, Luke and Papas, Marios and Jarosz, Wojciech and Fox, Phillip and Dicinoski, Greg and Olivares, Maria",
    title = "The modelling of caustics to produce a projection image",
    booktitle = "Optical Security Documents Conference",
    year = "2018",
    month = jan,
    abstract = "The Projection-Based Image is a new banknote security feature that projects a desired image when an array of microlenses embossed into the banknote substrate is exposed to a light source. The feature is designed computationally to make the projected image difficult to discern by inspection of the lens structures, and to accommodate a range of light sources, allowing wide accessibility to users with a simple mobile phone flash. The projected image is formed from a collection of Gaussian-shaped caustic profiles, each arising due to light refracting through a single microlens."
}