I added both that you sent.
Your smallest beams in that submission were still as big as WMGs, though
For the ones I made, I concentrated on special effects, and mostly copied other beams to make up for my lack of artistic talent.
The helix cannon, for example, uses knowledge of the details of the tiling pattern so it looks like there is one continuous spiral travelling down the main beam
The "Torpedo" beam uses the red zone to make a projectile, and the green zone to erase it and leave a smoke trail.