[snickerd00dle]

At that size what you're actually looking for is a game engine with a particle system.

[throwaway425933]

Wow. I had not thought of that. While idea makes sense, even MVP for this is going to be daunting

[samstave]

Sent you email with some details on volumetric particle cloud in blender and pythons to snake a harness to that mvp using cuda/other gpu signal tools...