Blender Plane Generation

### creates a series of planes lined up along one axis. I use this as a basis for a particle system when 
### I dont have access to compute shader or a cache friendly enviroment 

import bpy
import bmesh

#mesh arrays
m_verts = []
m_faces = []

m_number_of_planes=900
m_distance_between_planes=1
for i in range(0, m_number_of_planes):
    m_verts.append((i*m_distance_between_planes, -1.0, -1.0))
    m_verts.append((i*m_distance_between_planes, -1.0,  1.0))
    m_verts.append((i*m_distance_between_planes,  1.0,  1.0))
    m_verts.append((i*m_distance_between_planes,  1.0, -1.0))
    
    m_face_one=(i*4+0, i*4 +3, i*4 + 1)        
    m_face_two=(i*4+1, i*4 +3, i*4 + 2) 
    
    m_faces.append(m_face_one)
    m_faces.append(m_face_two)
           
           
m_mesh   =  bpy.data.meshes.new("planes_lined_up")
m_object =  bpy.data.objects.new(m_mesh.name,m_mesh)

m_scene = bpy.context.scene
bpy.context.collection.objects.link(m_object)

m_mesh.from_pydata(m_verts,[],m_faces)
m_mesh.update(calc_edges=True)