While I do not have access to the A6 shaders yet, this type of stuff is pretty straight forward. If you do a search for shader development groups - you will find a few different methods to accomplish it, including this one.
Also, if I recall they used grass as an example in ShaderX (the book) - though it is at work, so I can't look right now.
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