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I’m obsessed with lights and Ducati has again gone far beyond impressing me with its lighting design

Do any experts know what we call the fiber optic looking wire that’s pumped with an LED. It does act as a lens to emit the light in a particular pattern as to be an exceptional DRL. What vocabulary would describe this component, and also the assembly as a whole

look closely, Audi/Ducati killed it, there are 2 fiber lenses pipes through the eyebrow of the headlight assembly and they both light up to give everyone something truly breathtaking to stare at.
One stripe of light goes down the middle of the eyebrow and the other hugs the bottom of the eyebrow closest to the headlight

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and for those of you who told me turning the eyebrows into integrated turn signals possibly with a high fidelity sequential flair to it, that oncoming traffic won’t be able to see it because they're so low, but from a distance they are perfectly visible and I would argue that integrates signals would be supreme if they were done like an R8. If someone like @Nazar wants to make this dream come true let’s talk
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normally we just call them tube lenses. a number of new cars have them now as HBLED tech is better. Ive seen a couple of local cars which had their DRL's changed out to RGB and also be used as turn signals
There seems to be a number of people which do these mods online/facebook pages so might be worth contacting one.
 
normally we just call them tube lenses. a number of new cars have them now as HBLED tech is better. Ive seen a couple of local cars which had their DRL's changed out to RGB and also be used as turn signals
There seems to be a number of people which do these mods online/facebook pages so might be worth contacting one.
I think BMW started it with the pipes tube lenses but that was long b4 LEDs. Then audi came in with their signature LED DRLs with individual LEDs in a cool shape, and now we have these and they are my favorite

I’m not cracking these lenses open. I’d buy another assembly to experiment on when the time comes but I think the integrated turn signals on the R8/RS7 are pointing to the future of lighting tech on our Panigales
 

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