On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:27:30 +0200, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:

>> I recently found out that my LG KS360 supposedly has a 400MHz  
>> proccessor. IIRC I used to run Pov-Ray 3.1 on a 333Mhz machine in 1997.  
>> My cellphone is a lot slower than the 33MHz Celeron I had to work on  
>> back then,
>
> Different architecture completely.  How do you mean your phone is "a lot  
> slower"?
>
It take ages to show the thumbnails of the images on my memory card...

>> Would it be possible to make a simple .jar ray-tracer to run on a  
>> cell-phone?
>
> Yes.  I made a couple of simple jar applications to just show test  
> patterns on various phones.  IIRC I had to download the Java SDK and the  
> Nokia SDK, was a bit of a fiddle to get set up, but it was all free  
> software and even came with an emulator.  Not sure whether using Java  
> and .jar files would give the best speed though, compiling directly to  
> machine code would probably be faster (eg from a C or C++ type  
> langauge).  This probably requires a commercial compiler though, IDK.
>

That would be great! =)

-Nekar Xenos-

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