Autodesk Maya fluid effects technology is used by Hollywood professionals to do things like manipulate images—fire, smoke, aliens –for blockbuster and other movies. And Autodesk Fluid FX is an app that is based on Maya.

As Jos Stam, Autodesk senior research scientist, creator of the app, and, significantly, two-time Academy Award-winner, puts it, “Autodesk Fluid FX empowers a wide audience to enjoy a beautiful and immersive visual experience based on sophisticated visual effects technology and complex physics.”

Or look at it this way: You have the app on your iPhone or iPad, and as you’re playing with it during a meeting as your boss drones on and on, when you get called out, you can simply explain that you’re using some rather advanced Autodesk design tech, not goofing.

It might work.