Only tangentially related: In the Quake source code, they have strings to represent the intensity over time of a flickering light source: https://github.com/i

Only tangentially related: In the Quake source code, they have strings to represent the intensity over time of a flickering light source: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/bf4ac424ce754894ac8f1dae6a3981954bc9852d/qw-qc/world.qc#L336 https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/bf4ac424ce754894ac... // 3 CANDLE (first variety) lightstyle(3, "mmmmmaaaaammmmmaaaaaabcdefgabcdefg"); They range from a to z and progress through the string with time, so the candle starts out at medium "m" intensity for a bit before it goes dark ("a") for some time, etc.