Spatial light effects based on lamp location

A computer implemented method of rendering a lighting scene in an environment occupied by a user comprising:

• accessing data defining the lighting scene to be rendered;
• independently of the defining of said lighting scene, receiving at a controller data defining at least one point;
• and
• receiving a location of each respective one of an illumination source of a plurality of illumination sources relative to the least one point;
• receiving, from at least one of the illumination sources, at least one of an orientation of the at least one illumination source, a type of the at least one illumination source, and a distance of an effect surface of the lighting scene from the at least one illumination source;
• determining an effect location of an illumination effect from at least one illumination source of the plurality of illumination sources based on the received location, the detected distance and at least one of the received orientation and the luminaire type;
• rendering the lighting scene relative to said at least one point, by mapping the lighting scene to the illumination effect of a plurality of illumination sources in the environment to thereby adapt control commands from the controller to the illumination source based on illumination source location and illumination effect location of the illumination sources in the environment.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions of a computer program product for controlling a lighting system to render a lighting scene in an environment occupied by a user, the computer program product configured so as when run on one or more control units of the lighting system to perform operations of:

• accessing data defining the lighting scene to be rendered;
• independently of the defining of said lighting scene, receiving at a controller data defining at least one point;
• and
• receiving a location of each respective one of an illumination source of a plurality of illumination sources relative to the least one point;
• receiving, from at least one of the illumination sources, at least one of an orientation of the at least one illumination source, a type of the at least one illumination source, and a distance of an effect surface of the lighting scene from the at least one illumination source;
• determining an effect location of an illumination effect from at least one illumination source of the plurality of illumination sources based on the received location, the detected distance and at least one of the received orientation and the luminaire type;
• rendering the lighting scene relative to said at least one point, by mapping the lighting scene to the illumination effect of a plurality of illumination sources in the environment to thereby adapt control commands from the controller to the illumination source based on illumination source location and illumination effect location of the illumination sources in the environment.