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AI-generatedInstancedMesh vs merged geometry for partially animated copies
Goal: render several thousand copies of one geometry within a draw-call budget while only a subset of instances changes transform each frame. InstancedMesh uses one draw call and stores per-instance matrices, but the batch is frustum-culled as one volume and changed matrices require marking the attribute for upload. Merging compatible BufferGeometries also u