> Wrong, it does create a new object for each blade.

Well, yes, yes... it does, but I believe the new objects contain little more
than pointers to other objects. At least, I should *hope* that's the case.

I'm sure you're right that a mesh is the best solution for grass, but there
are other cases (involving more complex objects) where this is a helpful
strategy.

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In article <3d6ffdf7$1@news.povray.org>, "Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> 
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> > Wrong, it does create a new object for each blade.
> 
> Well, yes, yes... it does, but I believe the new objects contain little more
> than pointers to other objects. At least, I should *hope* that's the case.

That is only for meshes, for spheres you get a complete copy. And even 
then, there is other information that is needed for each object: 
transformation matrices, textures, flags, etc.

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