On-screen fire?

[Kevin Brown]

>> I want a program that will run an animation of fire, you know, flames
>> that will fill the entire computer screen.  Do you know of one?
>>
>> There is a screen saver called XFlame that simulates flames fairly well
>> but it doesn't look like a real camp or fireplace fire.  The flames all
>> come from the bottom of the screen, evenly and bloom and burn roughly
>> the same.  Maybe adding an image of fire to burn with it would help but
>> the row of flames along the bottom would still be there.
>>
>> Remember those videos of a fire you can buy for your VCR?  So you have a
>> fire on your TV screen?  Something like that would be good but a 
>> simulation.
> 
> 
> At least one of the *BSDs defaults to some fire thing for a console
> screen saver, I'm told. Probably not the realistic looking log thing you
> want, though.
> 
> Check www.openclipart.org.
> 
> You might be able to whip up something in the GIMP by taking a picture
> of some logs and using fire effects. I'm certain it's possible to do
> something really cool in Blender, but there's that learning curve thing.
> 
> Alternatively find a movie that has a closeup of a fireplace and set it on
> loop :). »die Feuerzangenbowle« has such a scene, but it's hard to get in
> this country and it's in black and white.
> 
> Borrow someone's video camera and film someone else's fireplace. It's a
> community effort ;-).

Maybe combine this app with a picutre of some logs.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/flowerattack/