Mythbusters build 1100-barreled paintball gun, paints Mona Lisa
August 29th, 2008CPU, graphics card, nVidia, NVISION
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.
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That’s more of an Andy Warhol interpretation of a Mona Lisa than a Mona Lisa Mona Lisa. Still — pretty dang cool.
That’s downright awesome. I love when they do it in slow motion and you can see the paint splatter off the canvas.
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