After creating a series of compositions based on my kaleidoscopic patch , I played with Quartz Composer’s particle system, to create a flame and falling snow flakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYLevXRytA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FH_-_chcfY

As for the last times, both Flame and Snow source compositions are available. Flame’s patch looks like this:

And here is Snow’s patch preview: