>>Actually, that's the best CG flames I've ever seen. How did you do that?
> 
> 
> Emissive media with a little absorption, granite pattern with some 
> turbulence for the density, modulated by a spherical pattern. Then a couple 
> of adjustments to the pattern to give a very sudden change in density from 
> outside the flame to inside. Then tweak all the parameters until it looks 
> right. The source code makes it look pretty complex but all those nested 
> pigment_patterns are just to control the boundary between inside and outside 
> the flame.

...so fundamentally, it's granite and turbulence?

(I just couldn't think of a pattern that looks flame-like, that's all.)

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