I was originally thinking of creating a chain of individual snowflakes from coro and poking lights through and using dumb RGB.
But then I made things more complicated
![Tongue :P](http://diylightanimation.com/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
. What if I just created small grids of smart strings? I could then light up lights on each grid and create a variety of geometric shapes like diamonds, circles(kinda) etc. I picked 11x11 (121 nodes) grid as this is one string and controller per grid. At least on graph paper, I find 11x11 is limiting for simple shapes as well. Diamonds, squares, rectangles work but more complex shapes are hard to approximate well).
Then I thought about Nutcracker, but I can see this size grid is too small.