Sunday, August 31, 2008

MythBusters Build a 1100-Barrel Paintball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa, in 80 milliseconds

A presentation made at graphic's card computer show this week.

Adam and Jamie unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and in 80 milliseconds painted a pretty convincing Mona Lisa.

In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis.

The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively.

Of course, the reality of parallel computing is much more complex than the MythBusters are making it seem here, but as with many of the experiments on their TV show, the sheer ridiculousness of this demonstration makes its questionability excusable.





[TGDaily via CrunchGear]

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