Oh, I was way off then
The first one that auto load the entire tree as the current color does a wipe and fill when a new color happens.
So I would not classify them as animations.
The first/original cheer lights code was made to occupy the no animation void in the original tree code. I made that the default since I did not wish to have the default animations running. The better half thought they were too flashy to be on our big tree but said the cheerlights display could.