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🕯️ From Cappings to Candles: Rendering and Using Beeswax

An interactive 3D candle-pour lab: adjust filtration, pour temperature, cooling speed and wick size to see how they change bloom, sink holes and burn quality in a finished beeswax candle.

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Pour a virtual beeswax pillar candle and watch how filtration quality, pour temperature, cooling speed and wick size decide whether it sets as a premium, sellable candle or ends up back in the melter.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Sediment settling, surface bloom, central sink holes and wick-tunnelling are all real, visible consequences of how rendered wax is filtered, poured and cooled — the same defects a hobbyist beekeeper checks for before selling a batch.

🎮 How to Use

Set filtration quality, pour temperature, cooling speed and wick size, then pour a new candle. Once it sets, light it to see how the melt pool spreads — or tunnels — across the top.

💡 Did You Know?

A whitish "bloom" on pure beeswax candles is a natural, harmless crystallisation of fatty acids and esters — not mould — and buffing it with a warm cloth restores the honey-gold shine.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D candle-pour lab where you fill a transparent mould with molten beeswax and watch filtration, pour temperature, cooling speed and wick size determine sediment, surface bloom, sink holes and burn quality on the finished candle.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install