Friday, August 29, 2008

Baller

In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, the ambiguously gay duo from Mythbusters unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing / slightly drippy Mona Lisa.

Following 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. True h4x0rs can see parallel computing is much more complex than they make it seem here, but as with many of the experiments on their TV show, the sheer ridiculousness of he demonstration makes the whole thing almost pure follly. The call has already gone out to see the MythBusters turn that paint cannon on a human. Calling Jackass...

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