This does make a great deal of sense.  Could you possibly supply an
example to get me started?  Thanks for the help!

Nathan Kopp wrote:

> To make a good looking flame you will probably want to use
> two overlapping media.  The emitting one would contain a
> color map that fades to black (black doesn't emit any light).
> The second media would be absorbing and the color map colors
> should probably be the compliments of the colors in the
> emitting media (but still needs to fade to black).  The reason
> that you'd use compliments is that you'd want to absorb the
> colors other than the ones you are emitting.
>
> I hope this helps.  The key is that you need to do a fade to
> black instead of a fade to transparent (since transparency is
> ignored).
>
> -Nathan Kopp

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