Custom lighting

Computing equipment for specifying a lighting effect to be emitted by an illumination source in order to illuminate a target object, the computing equipment comprising:

• a camera or an input interface for receiving an input from the camera;
• an output interface for instigating creation of a lighting effect;
• and
• an image processing module configured to process at least one image captured by the camera from a perspective of the camera being placed at a position at which the illumination source is to be installed, or elsewhere on a straight line between said position and the target object, and the camera being directed along said line toward the target object;
• wherein the image processing module is configured to automatically determine one or more parameters of the target object based on the at least one image captured from said perspective, to automatically specify one or more properties for said lighting effect in dependence on the one or more parameters of the target object as determined based on said at least one captured image, and via said output interface to instigate the creation of said lighting effect so as to include the one or more specified properties;
• wherein said specifying comprises generating a specification for the illumination source or at least one custom component of the illumination source, and wherein said instigating comprises outputting the specification to a system or service for generating the illumination source or the at least one custom component.

A computer program product for specifying a lighting effect to be emitted by an illumination source, in order to illuminate a target object, the computer program product comprising code embodied on computer-readable storage and configured so as when run on one or more processing units to perform operations of:

• receiving at least one image captured by a camera from a perspective of the camera being placed at a position at which the illumination source is to be installed, or elsewhere on a straight line between said position and the target object, and the camera being directed along said line toward the target object;
• automatically determining one or more parameters of the target object based on the at least one image captured from said perspective;
• automatically specifying one or more properties for said lighting effect in dependence on the one or more parameters of the target object as determined based on said at least one captured image;
• and
• instigating creation of said lighting effect so as to include the one or more specified properties;
• wherein said specifying comprises generating a specification for the illumination source or at least one custom component of the illumination source, and wherein said instigating comprises outputting the specification to a system or service for generating the illumination source or the at least one custom component.