I’ve been putting off deep-diving into Niagara for the longest time, but finally over the weekend spent some time trying to create something along the lines of Refik Anadol’s “Bosphorus”: Refik Anadol, "Bosphorus A," 2018 on Vimeo
Pretty happy with the result 
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- 600k Niagara GPU mesh particles, propelled and guided by slowly panning curl noise
- Collisions with ground mesh using distance fields
- Skylight and directional light (cascaded shadows), voumetric exponential height fog
- Extremely shallow depth of field using CineCamera