these are the stats for 5000 blades of grass without rad or the isosurface
that
I used for the ground

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Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage
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Cone/Cylinder                   454979           38580      8.48
Isosurface                      109192          109192    100.00
Isosurface Container            109192          109192    100.00
Bounding Box                   6009716          800041     13.31
Vista Buffer                  14963855        10388767     69.43
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Smallest Alloc:                 25 bytes   Largest:           786456
Peak memory used:         21574535 bytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time For Parse:    0 hours  3 minutes  33.0 seconds (213 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours  0 minutes   6.0 seconds (5 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  3 minutes  38.0 seconds (218 seconds)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--
Kevin
http://www.geocities.com/qsquared_1999/
#macro _(r)#if(r<12)#local i=asc(substr("oqshilacefg"
,r,1))-97;disc{<mod(i,7)-3,div(i,7)-1,6>,z,.4
pigment{rgb 10}}_(r+1)#end#end _(1)//KL

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