fast cycles flames/fire

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i discovered you can easily make decent fire in cycles with very very low samples! heres a render showing two different flames:

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heres the nodes for the red one:
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and the blue one:
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so basically, i took a cylinder, scaled+loop-cutted it into the flame shape, 3x subsurfed it, and displaced it along the Z with a cloud/noise texture, and 1x subsurfed it again.
heres the blend: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/28471

comments, cirts, tips, everything appreciated!

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a little welding thingy:

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the resolution is ridiculosly huge, something like 1024x8192, because i was rendering it overnight anyway. 93 samples (i was using progressive and stopped it after it had been running for a long time)
.blend: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/28490

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is nobody else interested in this?