Recreating Blender to run on a Nokia N95

As a part of a mission to create a sport engine on retro {hardware}, Dante Leoncini from Argentina is writing his personal Blender model to run on a Nokia N95 – a cellphone from 2007!

Dante writes:

The mission’s objective is to focus on the deliberate obsolescence of telephones, each these from 18 years in the past and present fashions. I purpose to generate shopper demand for extra sustainable and sturdy telephones, decreasing the huge quantity of digital waste. This may additionally assist extra individuals entry expertise via the recycling of those previous units.

The mission is presently referred to as Blendersito (this shall be modified later), and it is created totally from scratch. There isn’t a shared codebase with Blender as Dante tries to keep away from the license restrictions of the GPL. Nonetheless, in his current video he explains he’d like this to develop into a part of the principle Blender mission so he can take implement assist for the .mix file format and different options.

This video from a couple of 12 months in the past provides an excellent overview of the mission:

Do not count on an excessive amount of but – Blendersito does much less of 1% of what Blender can do. That stated, it already handles PlayStation 4 fashions, helps results like cell-shading and primary modeling.

Seeing a few of these movies I am unable to assist however be impressed by the efficiency of such a easy and previous cellphone. I additionally actually loved seeing how one can hook up a display screen, keyboard and mouse to it.

You can follow the project along on its Github page.

This current video provides an replace on the mission and the eye it has been receiving these days:

Listed below are some movies of the

A number of choice of objects/vertices!.
??+ ? = Choose/deselect all
??+ ? or ??+ ? = Add the subsequent/earlier object/vertex to the choice.
?? = Deselect the lively object/vertex and transfer to the subsequent within the checklist.#blendersito #b3d #blender #nokia #symbian #s60v3 #3dmodeling pic.twitter.com/ILHHu1ILOD

— Dante Leoncini (@dante_leoncini) August 4, 2024

Michael’s GTA 5 mannequin with 31,608 triangles on a Nokia N95! Blender had a RAM reminiscence restrict of 1MB. I elevated it to 64MB, and now it permits textures of greater than 256x256px and loading extraordinarily complicated fashions! #gta #gtav #gta5 #b3d #blender #blender3d #nokia #symbian pic.twitter.com/cwRjMKEw4K

— Dante Leoncini (@dante_leoncini) June 1, 2024

Blendersito now permits you to guardian objects, animate them, and render animations! I shall be refining these options and importing examples within the coming days.#b3d #blender #blender3d #animation #nokia #3d #3dart #render #openGl #symbian pic.twitter.com/TTjtM2A6lg

— Dante Leoncini (@dante_leoncini) May 27, 2024