Ahh, I smell a challenge. If I'm still interested when I get back from 2
weeks vacation (leaving tomorrow) I will attempt to better this. It is a bit
hard to see but is this 5 iterations (5 different sizes of spheres)? If so I
bet I can make at least 7 and maybe 8 AND keep it under 200Megs usage.

What I would do first is split the thing into 2 parts. It is obvious that
each bubbly sphere thingy is repeated in may places. Given this I think you
could create the smaller sphere thingys as a CSG shape and then just repeat
that in different places. The trade off is how small a CSG do you create
versus how many times you want to place it. My guess would be half way, that
is 3 iterations for the small thingy and use it for 3 iterations of the big
thingy.

Anyhoo, I hope the above makes some sort of sense. Good luck and I'll be
back in 2 weeks.

--Rainer


GrimDude <gri### [at] netfreecom> wrote in message
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> Okay, what exactly would you call this? :)
>
> One more iteration and memory usage goes over 200Megs, so I settled.
>
> Hmm, how to save memory....
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