Decode of wall shot, translate into road illumination
What is a good low beam pattern?
This is ultimately a timeless question amongst the headlight enthusiasts community. To understand which are truly critical qualities we must first learn to evaluate the information obtained from wall shot image, how we can apply to road illumination. This is the goal of this article..
To start, I would like to display the below 3 samples of projector beam patterns: The kind is most commonly seen in internet forum posts and everybody’s favorite, “full beam wall shot”
Given conditions as of this starting point are
- Peak intensity
- Where is that peak at in (x,y) position
- And of course, lowered exposure wall shot image to observe how hot spot zone looks like
Thanks to much more popularly available lux meter on the market nowadays, we now can obtain objective information to make, “objective evaluation”.

**All of 3 projector beams are aimed identically.
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