Down at NVISION (nVidia’s computer graphics event), the Mythbusters revealed a 1100-barreled paintball gun that painted a pretty good picture of the Mona Lisa – in less than a second. In the demonstration, a first paintball gun is used to draw a smiley face, but at a very slow rate (this one only has one barrel). The second, 1100 barreled gun paints a much more complex picture, much, much faster. In the spirit of NVISION, the purpose of this project was to illustrate the difference in power of single core and multi core GPUs.
The Mythbusters have a knack for permanently engraving things in my brain with outlandish demonstrations, but this one is truly spectacular.
[Giz]