Candle Flame & Wick Char (2D)

Airflow & Wick

Convective airflow 30%

Wax hardness 50%

Flame settling into steady convection.

Live Readout

Wax remaining

100%

Flame height

0 mm

Wick char

0 mm

Drips

How it works

The flame isn't bent by a single "wind strength" number — it responds to a procedural convective-airflow field, a layered value-noise function sampled over time and height, the same trick used to fake turbulent smoke. Each segment of the flame samples the field at a slightly different height and with a short lag, so the tip whips independently of the base exactly like a real diffusion flame in unsteady air.

Wick char: the burnt (carbonized) tip of the wick doesn't disappear — it curls and lengthens the longer the candle burns. A long char lifts the flame higher and makes it sootier and less stable, until you trim it back with the scissors button, just like tending a real candle.
Directional dripping: heat isn't distributed evenly around the rim. The simulator tracks which side the flame has been leaning toward and melts that side of the rim faster, so wax reliably drips from the leeward side rather than at random.

Flame Wax / drips Wick & char