Mythbusters Paint Mona Lisa With 1100 Barrel Paint Ball Gun

by Scott Beale on August 29, 2008 · 6 comments

Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman demonstrate the difference between CPU and GPU by painting the Mona Lisa in 275 milliseconds using a 1100 barrel paint ball gun earlier this week at NVIDIA’s NVISION 08 show.

via TG Daily & CrunchGear

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1 Moose August 29, 2008 at 11:46 am

Wow.. that's pretty amazing.

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2 Dave August 29, 2008 at 3:12 pm

If you can not get enough of Jamie and Adam, here is the full version of their presentation at NVISION 08. It runs about 15 minutes and you will see exactly want the audience saw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3OGgBkRiQ

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3 mahboud August 29, 2008 at 3:20 pm

If the only thing that the 1100 barrel paint ball gun can draw is the same Mona Lisa, then why have a processing unit? Just preload each barrel with the right color and pull the trigger.

I would have been more impressed if the demo showed the rendering (painting) of one canvas after another, depicting different artwork.

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4 Brandon August 29, 2008 at 5:52 pm

The Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows.

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5 dwpbike August 30, 2008 at 9:32 am

further proof of what our country is all about

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6 Bnjmn September 5, 2008 at 1:23 am

http://www.recyclism.com/printball.php
Project made in 2005…

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