15,000 meta balls! most objects i ever had b4 my machine bombed was 10,000 bog-standard spheres! and then it died a death worth of a celeron 333. it had done its best. actually i've upgraded since i fiddled with that picture... added 64meg more ram.... hmmmm... "and the light went out in his eyes for the very last time, ever." a slight misquote but it'll do! John