A lighting controller built on three primitive ideas:

• analog clocks:

  • "tells the time" in a continuous fashion (eg it is presently 35.75935% of the way between the last tick and the next tick)
  • "ticks" (supplies a trigger event when the clock's phase rolls from 1.0 to 0.0)

• quasi-periodic waveforms: waveforms with a current phase on [0.0,1.0) You may ask a waveform for its current value, or its current value with an arbitrary phase offset. Waveforms need not be truly periodic but should still have a notion of constant-width periods in time (representing the portion of the waveform mapped to the phase 0.0 to 1.0) with phase offsets (possibly returning a value from a neighboring period, regardless of whether the waveform is 1.0-periodic)

• aggressive reduction of control parameters down to an absolutely minimal set, with automatic coercion from any into any other, enabling maximum artistic weirdness without compromising safety.