An illumination system (1) for a vehicle, the illumination system comprising:
- at least one lighting device (2), comprising at least two, individually controllable, light sources (3a, 3b), configured to emit light along a main direction of light propagation (x), and a lens element (4), arranged downstream of the at least two light sources (3a, 3b) along the main direction of light propagation (x), wherein the lens element (4) is configured to receive a first light bundle from a first light source (3a) of the at least two light sources (3a, 3b) and emit the first light bundle along the main direction of light propagation (x), and to receive a second light bundle from a second light source (3b) of the at least two light sources (3a, 3b) and emit the second light bundle along the main direction of light propagation (x);
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- a vehicle body component (5), arranged downstream of the lens element (4) along the main direction of light propagation (x), wherein the lens element (4) is configured to emit the first light bundle and the second light bundle towards the vehicle body component (5), respectively, wherein the vehicle body component (5) comprises an opaque section (6), configured to block light emitted by the lens element (4) and a plurality of transparent elements (7), embedded within the opaque section (6), configured to let light emitted from the lens element (4) pass through the vehicle body component (5) along the main direction of light propagation (x), wherein adjacent transparent elements (7) are distanced to each other, with a distance greater than zero in a main plane of the vehicle body component (5), wherein the main plane is orthogonal to the main direction of light propagation (x),
- wherein the plurality of transparent elements (7) are defined by at least one parent-group (PG) of transparent elements (7), said parent-group (PG) is divided into at least two sub-groups (SG), wherein at least two transparent elements (7) define a first sub-group (SG1), wherein at least two different transparent elements (7′), which are not part of the first sub-group (SG1), define a second sub-group (SG2),
- wherein the lens element (4) is configured to redirect the first light bundle of the first light source (3a) towards the first sub-group (SG1) of transparent elements (7) and to redirect the second light bundle of the second light source (3b) towards the second sub-group (SG2) of transparent elements (7′), such that in a state of operation, in which the first light source (3a) and the second light source (3b) emit light, the first sub-group (SG1) of transparent elements (7) and the second sub-group (SG2) of transparent elements (7′) is illuminated by its respective light source (3a, 3b), and in a state of operation, in which only one of the at least two light sources (3a, 3b) emit light, only one of the at least two sub-group (SG1, SG2) of transparent elements (7, 7′), which is associated with the light emitting light source (3a, 3b), is illuminated, and wherein the vehicle body component (5) comprises a back surface facing the lens element (4) and a front surface averting the lens element (4), and
- wherein the lens element (4) is configured to refract the first light bundle and the second light bundle, such that the refracted first light bundle and the refracted second light bundle propagate towards the optical axis (OA) of the lens element (4), respectively, wherein the lens element (4) comprises a projections lens which projects the light of the light source (3, 3a, 3b) to the back surface of the vehicle body component (5), wherein the lens element (4) comprises a projection lens configured to project the first light bundle towards the first sub-group (SG1) of transparent elements (7), and the second light bundle towards the second sub-group (SG2) of transparent elements (7′).