Patent ID: 8538557

Claim:
A control system for a console based lighting system, comprising: a housing, housing at least one computer having a first type of processor, and having a connection which receives commands indicating a precompiled file indicating a plurality of different images and at least one effect for said different images, to be created by an external light; said connection receiving a control input, and having an output port, producing outputs indicative of a current control of said housing; said at least one computer receiving said precompiled file which is compiled to include at least a first layer including an image, a second layer that creates a perimeter that blocks all but the perimeter of the first layer, and a third layer that provides color for a combination of the first layer, second layer and third layer, said precompiled file compiled for a processor other than a type of a first processor; and said at least one computer interpreting said precompiled file that includes each of said first, second and third layers, and creating outputs directed to at least one light, that are created from interpreting said precompiled file, wherein each of said first, second and third layers include at least one of a time, a color, and/or an effect, and each layer affects all of other layers, wherein each layer that represents an effect includes a parameter associated therewith specifying an amount of the effect, wherein one of said effects include a continual sinusoidal wobble, and wherein said parameter includes a speed of the continual sinusoidal wobble.