Systems and methods for connecting and controlling configurable lighting units

A method for controlling a plurality of coupled lighting components in accordance with an audio signal, the method comprising:

• providing a digital audio representation based at least on the audio signal;
• emitting, by the plurality of coupled lighting components, individually controllable light, the coupled lighting components physically arranged in a continuous shape, each of the plurality of coupled lighting components configured to emit the individually controllable light, and controllable in accordance with one or more received lighting activation instructions;
• maintaining an electronic representation of the continuous shape based on sensed rearrangements of or change events occurring in relation to the continuous shape that may result in a different continuous shape, the electronic representation including at least linkages indicative of geospatial relations between coupled lighting components;
• providing a plurality of lighting activation instructions generated in accordance with the digital audio representation, the plurality of lighting activation instructions comprising timed instruction sets representative of at least one of (i) a color coordinate, (ii) an intensity level, and (iii) a desired geometric position of the lighting activation;
• for each lighting activation instruction, selecting an individual coupled lighting component of the plurality of coupled lighting components based at least on querying the electronic representation of the continuous shape;
• individually controlling each of the coupled lighting components in accordance with the lighting activation instructions, the lighting activation instructions, in combination causing a geometric visualization effect to be co-operatively displayed across the one or more coupled lighting components of the plurality of coupled lighting components.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including machine readable instructions, the machine readable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for controlling a plurality of coupled lighting components in accordance with an audio signal, the method comprising:

• providing a digital audio representation based at least on the audio signal;
• emitting, by the plurality of coupled lighting components, individually controllable light, the coupled lighting components provided in a physical arrangement, each of the plurality of coupled lighting components configured to emit individually controllable light, and controllable in accordance with one or more received lighting activation instructions;
• maintaining an electronic representation of the physical arrangement based on sensed rearrangements of or change events occurring in relation to the physical arrangement, the electronic representation including at least linkages indicative of geospatial relations between coupled lighting components;
• providing a plurality of lighting activation instructions generated in accordance with the digital audio representation, the plurality of lighting activation instructions comprising timed instruction sets representative of at least one of (i) a color coordinate, (ii) an intensity level, and (iii) a desired geometric position of the lighting activation;
• for each lighting activation instruction, selecting an individual coupled lighting component of the plurality of coupled lighting components based at least on querying the electronic representation of the physical arrangement;
• individually controlling each of the coupled lighting components in accordance with the plurality of lighting activation instructions, the one or more lighting activation instructions in combination causing a geometric visualization effect to be co-operatively displayed across the one or more coupled lighting components of the plurality of coupled lighting components.