Second Use Case: Wispy Smoke in Cursed

The next major use was Cursed (2005), where we rendered wispy smoke effects.
We advected large numbers of particles through Frantic's fluid simulator, Flood.
That pushed Krakatoa beyond static point imagery into fully simulated particle effects.
It also required adding motion blur, making the renderer much more capable.

Scaling Up Further

One of the last projects I touched before leaving Frantic involved work connected to Superman Returns.
The renderer was being pushed toward even greater scalability for SPORE-like crystal internals and explosive effects.
I was exploring hierarchical data structures and ray-casting approaches to handle the increasing complexity.
By then, it was obvious Krakatoa had become more than a single-show solution.