"pirateprincess" <pir### [at] charternet> wrote:

> I only have the code for the DNA written out once, declared as an object as
> you have described below. Then to get the full picture, I have unions of
> various numbers of the helix declared as seperate objects. This has allowed
> me to work with only one or two of the helices at a time in order to get
> them the way I want them. But now that I am trying to view my final scene
> with all the copies, it is running out of memory.
>

Depending on the rest of the scene (shadows and reflections would make the
following technique more difficult) you could render the individual helices
using a transparent background (+UA command line option) and then combine
the images using a photo editor.

Mike S.

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