On-screen fire?

[Alan Dayley]

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der.hans wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-).

I have a fireplace and a video camera, so I could do just that.  But a
video played on a computer screen is less "computerized" than a computer
generated fire.

The one here looks good:http://www.geliosoft.com/fireplace-screensaver/
but is only for Windows.

I'll think about it some more.  The need is not urgent yet.

Alan
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