Light control system for automatically rendering a lighting atmosphere containing light effects, which lighting atmosphere is abstractly described and contained in a data file, with a lighting system by generating configuration settings for lighting modules of the lighting system, wherein the light control system comprises - a decomposition unit for decomposing the to be rendered lighting atmosphere in elementary light effects (14; S10) by analyzing the abstract description of the lighting atmosphere for the contained light effects, - a classification unit for classifying the elementary light effects into sets of light effects (16; S12), and - a coordination unit for coordinating the realisation of the sets of light effects with the lighting system (18; S14-S26) by computing and refining the configuration settings for lighting modules of the lighting system, characterised in that - the elementary light effects comprise at least two of the following: - ambient light effects to be provided by ambient lighting modules of the lighting system; - task light effects to be provided by task lighting modules of the lighting system; - accent light effects to be provided by accent lighting modules of the lighting system; and - the coordinating of the realisation of the sets of light effects comprises: - computing an initial estimation of configuration settings for realizing each set of light effects with the lighting system (S14-S20), and - gradually refining the different configuration settings in a closed-loop fashion using different time scales for different sets of light effects (S22-S26). - a decomposition unit for decomposing the to be rendered lighting atmosphere in elementary light effects (14; S10) by analyzing the abstract description of the lighting atmosphere for the contained light effects, - a classification unit for classifying the elementary light effects into sets of light effects (16; S12), and - a coordination unit for coordinating the realisation of the sets of light effects with the lighting system (18; S14-S26) by computing and refining the configuration settings for lighting modules of the lighting system, - the elementary light effects comprise at least two of the following: - ambient light effects to be provided by ambient lighting modules of the lighting system; - task light effects to be provided by task lighting modules of the lighting system; - accent light effects to be provided by accent lighting modules of the lighting system; and - ambient light effects to be provided by ambient lighting modules of the lighting system; - task light effects to be provided by task lighting modules of the lighting system; - accent light effects to be provided by accent lighting modules of the lighting system; and - the coordinating of the realisation of the sets of light effects comprises: - computing an initial estimation of configuration settings for realizing each set of light effects with the lighting system (S14-S20), and - gradually refining the different configuration settings in a closed-loop fashion using different time scales for different sets of light effects (S22-S26). - computing an initial estimation of configuration settings for realizing each set of light effects with the lighting system (S14-S20), and - gradually refining the different configuration settings in a closed-loop fashion using different time scales for different sets of light effects (S22-S26).