Wax
Dye
Pour and cooling
Cooling environment
Pour temperature applies to the next pour. Everything else acts immediately.
Run
P pour, L light or blow out, Space pause. Drag the candle to turn it.
—elapsed
—surface temp
—large crystals
—nuclei
View
Top surface
Thermal history
side surfacetop surfacelarge-crystal fractionmelting point
Lighting it melts a pool that erases the pattern. Blow it out and the pool refreezes from the rim inward, usually finer than the original: the pool never got hot enough to wipe out the crystal memory left by the solid wax around it.