What happens if you mix NVidia with MythBusters? You get to play with paint guns - a lot of them.
NVidia invited MythBusters to their NVision conference to demonstrate the difference in performance between a single CPU processor and a parallel GPU processor. And MythBusters came up with something that was quite extraordinary. They painted a picture of Mona Lisa, using 1100 paint guns in 80 miliseconds.
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If you like MythBusters, this is something you just got to see.
(video via YouTube and pictures via NVidia)
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