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. It's free and open source, has a huge community of artists, teachers and enthusiasts and it boasts an impressive range of tools. It also runs on a wide range of platforms: Windows,Yes, really. The Nokia N95 that was released in 2007. An Argentine 3D artist and programmer and Linux evangelist has managed to program a Symbian OS version of the 3D modelling software to run on an 18-year-old Nokia mobile phone.
While he initially programmed the app expecting to work with it using a mouse and keyboard and connected to a monitor, he found that the old Nokia was so well designed that it was actually comfortable to control Blender directly thought the phone's interface. You can see some of Dante's more recent progress on Blendersito in the series of videos below.
Dante describes Blendersito as one of the most challenging programming tasks he's undertaken to date, and it's one that made him realised the potential of the old Nokia phone. The Buenos Aires-based artist says his experiment highlights the issues of planned obsolescence and electronic waste in the smartphone industry, showing that retro phones have a lot more more power than what we might think. He complains that phones are limited by their software, but also by design decisions such as the non-replaceable batteries and expensive screen replacements in today's devices.
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