Many, many hours are spent programming the display on the computer, using a simple animation to see how the lights will look on the house.  Once the programming is complete, the time comes to start turning that simple animation into reality by physically constructing the display on the house.

What looks cool on the animation doesn’t neccessarily look cool on the actual house.  I do my best to plan everything out ahead of time so there’s few differences when the animation becomes the real display. When I run the lights for the very first time after constructing the display, it’s a slight gamble to see if my vision becomes reality.

I’m happy to say that today that vision did become reality.  I turned the lights on, ran the show a few times, and it’s all that I imagined and more.