Patent ID: 8665296

Claim:
A system for generating a colored light, comprising: a set of illuminant types, wherein the set of illuminant types is associated with a chromaticity gamut and wherein the set of illuminant types comprises at least five illuminant types that are each associated with an illuminant type hue angle; a tessellation associated with the chromaticity gamut, wherein the tessellation comprises tessellation vertices, wherein each tessellation vertex of the tessellation vertices comprises an intensity for each of the at least five illuminant types, wherein the intensity targets a zero intensity or a full intensity, wherein a circular ordered list of the at least five illuminant types is circularly ordered according to the associated illuminant type hue angle, and wherein for each tessellation vertex all illuminant types of the set of illuminant types targeting the full intensity are adjacent in the circular ordered list and all illuminant types targeting the zero intensity are adjacent in the circular ordered list; a mapping, wherein the mapping associates a color coordinate in the chromaticity gamut with an output level set having an output level for each of the at least five illuminant types of the set of illuminant types, wherein the output level for each of the at least five illuminant types is based at least in part on at least three tessellation vertices in the tessellation, and wherein the at least three tessellation vertices are associated with the color coordinate; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive a first color coordinate and a second color coordinate; interpolate the first color coordinate using the mapping and interpolate the second color coordinate using the mapping to determine a sequence of one or more interpolated output level sets; and provide the sequence of one or more interpolated output level sets, wherein the sequence of one or more interpolated output level sets are associated with changing a first generated colored light associated with the first color coordinate to a second generated colored light associated with the second color coordinate; and a light generating device, wherein the light generating device comprises one or more illuminants each of which has a type that is one type of the set of illuminant types.