KRAKATOA™ is Prime Focus' production-proven Volumetric Particle Rendering, Manipulation and Management Toolkit.
It provides a pipeline for acquiring, caching, deforming, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented speed to represent natural phenomena like dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma and even solid objects. Krakatoa™ integrates well with Particle Flow, the flexible 3ds Max built-in Event-Driven Particle System, and provides data exchange capabilities for sharing particles with other 3D and simulation applications.
Used by professional Hollywood SFX companies in movies like G.I.Joe: Rise of the Cobra
