This video provides a case study of creating a pyramid out of dupliverts and focus on the dupliverted object dead-end
[video]http://youtu.be/EQRqR7SlVwc[/video]

This video provides a case study of creating a pyramid out of dupliverts and focus on the dupliverted object dead-end
[video]http://youtu.be/EQRqR7SlVwc[/video]

Ya Dupliverts have some intriguing possibilities.
But, the Duplivertes tool is there to generate identical copies of objects without adding to file size. That is its main purpose. No?