Tweak the Christmas animation effect to be less harsh on the eyes (#7648)

* Tweak the Christmas animation effect to be less harsh on the eyes

* Further improve the tweaked Christmas animation code

- Use constants where it makes sense
- Instead of complicated math, use a static variable to keep track if it's animating from or to red
- Don't use pow (but a simple macro instead)
- Using floating point math is necessary for the fraction in the cubic bezier function to work

* Update docs for the tweaked Christmas animation effect

* Further improve memory usage

- Don't use floats, but 32 bit ints instead (where needed)
- Replace limits.h with constant

* Fix typo

3 files changed, 40 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/docs/feature_rgblight.md b/docs/feature_rgblight.md
index 26e01da501..23b2886edb 100644
--- a/docs/feature_rgblight.md
+++ b/docs/feature_rgblight.md
@@ -126,19 +126,19 @@ Use these defines to add or remove animations from the firmware. When you are ru
 
 The following options are used to tweak the various animations:
 
-|Define                              |Default      |Description                                                                          |
-|------------------------------------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+|Define                              |Default      |Description                                                                                    |
+|------------------------------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 |`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_BREATHE_CENTER`    |*Not defined*|If defined, used to calculate the curve for the breathing animation. Valid values are 1.0 to 2.7 |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_BREATHE_MAX`       |`255`        |The maximum brightness for the breathing mode. Valid values are 1 to 255             |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_INTERVAL`|`1000`       |How long to wait between light changes for the "Christmas" animation, in milliseconds|
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_STEP`    |`2`          |The number of LEDs to group the red/green colors by for the "Christmas" animation    |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LED_NUM`    |`RGBLED_NUM` |The number of LEDs to have the "Knight" animation travel                             |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LENGTH`     |`3`          |The number of LEDs to light up for the "Knight" animation                            |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_OFFSET`     |`0`          |The number of LEDs to start the "Knight" animation from the start of the strip by    |
-|`RGBLIGHT_RAINBOW_SWIRL_RANGE`      |`255`        |Range adjustment for the rainbow swirl effect to get different swirls                |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_SNAKE_LENGTH`      |`4`          |The number of LEDs to light up for the "Snake" animation                             |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_TWINKLE_LIFE`      |`75`         |Adjusts how quickly each LED brightens and dims when twinkling (in animation steps)  |
-|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_TWINKLE_PROBABILITY`|`1/127`     |Adjusts how likely each LED is to twinkle (on each animation step)                   |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_BREATHE_MAX`       |`255`        |The maximum brightness for the breathing mode. Valid values are 1 to 255                       |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_INTERVAL`|`40`         |How long (in milliseconds) to wait between animation steps for the "Christmas" animation       |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_STEP`    |`2`          |The number of LEDs to group the red/green colors by for the "Christmas" animation              |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LED_NUM`    |`RGBLED_NUM` |The number of LEDs to have the "Knight" animation travel                                       |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LENGTH`     |`3`          |The number of LEDs to light up for the "Knight" animation                                      |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_OFFSET`     |`0`          |The number of LEDs to start the "Knight" animation from the start of the strip by              |
+|`RGBLIGHT_RAINBOW_SWIRL_RANGE`      |`255`        |Range adjustment for the rainbow swirl effect to get different swirls                          |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_SNAKE_LENGTH`      |`4`          |The number of LEDs to light up for the "Snake" animation                                       |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_TWINKLE_LIFE`      |`75`         |Adjusts how quickly each LED brightens and dims when twinkling (in animation steps)            |
+|`RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_TWINKLE_PROBABILITY`|`1/127`     |Adjusts how likely each LED is to twinkle (on each animation step)                             |
 
 ### Example Usage to Reduce Memory Footprint
   1. Remove `RGBLIGHT_ANIMATIONS` from `config.h`.
diff --git a/quantum/rgblight.c b/quantum/rgblight.c
index f9e9da1679..52d8da1813 100644
--- a/quantum/rgblight.c
+++ b/quantum/rgblight.c
@@ -1163,16 +1163,39 @@ void rgblight_effect_knight(animation_status_t *anim) {
 #endif
 
 #ifdef RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS
+#    define CUBED(x) ((x) * (x) * (x))
+
+/**
+ * Christmas lights effect, with a smooth animation between red & green.
+ */
 void rgblight_effect_christmas(animation_status_t *anim) {
-    uint8_t hue;
+    static int8_t increment = 1;
+    const uint8_t max_pos = 32;
+    const uint8_t hue_green = 85;
+
+    uint32_t xa;
+    uint8_t hue, val;
     uint8_t i;
 
-    anim->current_offset = (anim->current_offset + 1) % 2;
+    // The effect works by animating anim->pos from 0 to 32 and back to 0.
+    // The pos is used in a cubic bezier formula to ease-in-out between red and green, leaving the interpolated colors visible as short as possible.
+    xa = CUBED((uint32_t) anim->pos);
+    hue = ((uint32_t) hue_green) * xa / (xa + CUBED((uint32_t) (max_pos - anim->pos)));
+    // Additionally, these interpolated colors get shown with a slightly darker value, to make them less prominent than the main colors.
+    val = 255 - (3 * (hue < hue_green / 2 ? hue : hue_green - hue) / 2);
+
     for (i = 0; i < rgblight_ranges.effect_num_leds; i++) {
-        hue = 0 + ((i / RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_STEP + anim->current_offset) % 2) * 85;
-        sethsv(hue, rgblight_config.sat, rgblight_config.val, (LED_TYPE *)&led[i + rgblight_ranges.effect_start_pos]);
+        uint8_t local_hue = (i / RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_STEP) % 2 ? hue : hue_green - hue;
+        sethsv(local_hue, rgblight_config.sat, val, (LED_TYPE *)&led[i + rgblight_ranges.effect_start_pos]);
     }
     rgblight_set();
+
+    if (anim->pos == 0) {
+        increment = 1;
+    } else if (anim->pos == max_pos) {
+        increment = -1;
+    }
+    anim->pos += increment;
 }
 #endif
 
diff --git a/quantum/rgblight.h b/quantum/rgblight.h
index 7b26962947..c3a9e94b7c 100644
--- a/quantum/rgblight.h
+++ b/quantum/rgblight.h
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ enum RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_MODE {
 #    endif
 
 #    ifndef RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_INTERVAL
-#        define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_INTERVAL 1000
+#        define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_INTERVAL 40
 #    endif
 
 #    ifndef RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_CHRISTMAS_STEP