* Finally fixed the candle flame. I'm reasonably pleased with it. (I 
know everybody else will tell me it's rubbish...)

* Took Gail's suggestion to make the marble stand rounded. I think it 
looks better this way.

* Spend countless hours tearing my hair out attempting to make the ice 
crystals look like... um... ice crystals. In the end, I took the fill 
light and made it white instead of blue, and decreased the fade_distance 
on the candle flame. This makes the crystals look less blue and more 
white, which sort-of achieves the desired effect. (The crystals are also 
smaller now, which helps... though not as much as I had hoped.)


At present, the ice crystals don't look enough like ice, and the overall 
colour balance of the image is wrong. I doubt I can actually fix either 
of these. (Suggestions welcome tho.)

This is rendered without radiosity. It bearly makes any difference now, 
but does result in a very slightly redder image, which is probably 
better. I'm rendering it now. Not sure which version I will submit.

Render time for this image was 2 hours + 48.3 seconds.

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