I have product with 4 variable attributes, the first attribute has 4 variations the second 8 and the third 9 and the fourth 4 variations. so each product will have 1152 variations. it will be a over load to create 1152 variations for more than about 150 products. since the website is a catalogue website I want to only display the variations attributes on the products page without creating the actual variations.
if the first method is not possible I would like to create only one product and put the variable attributes in additional Info but display the variations colors as small thumbnails.