Sort by CrunchGear (Free subscription) - 08/28/2008 - YouTube
The mythbusters compared a CPU vs a GPU and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 nanoseconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sort by CrunchGear (Free subscription) - 08/28/2008
Well, this really is awfully misleading, but it sure is awesome. The idea is that a normal CPU processes things one at a time, like the single-paintball robot, and a GPU has parallel processors that can do (in this case) 2100 times the work in a single stroke. Well, considering CPUs are moving to serious [...]
Sort by Gadget Lab (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
When the MythBusters shill for the Man, they do it in style. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were hired by Nvidia to demonstrate the speed differences between CPU and GPU processing. First, we see the pedestrian "CPU" in the form...
Sort by kottke (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
In order to explain serial computation vs. parallel computation, the Mythbusters guys pit two paintball guns against each other in a art contest ...one shoots one ball at a time and the other very much doesn't. (thx, steve) ( link )
Sort by DVICE (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
At the NVIDIA’s NVISION '08 event, Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage demonstrated the difference between the graphical power of a CPU-based unit and a dedicated graphics processing unit, which NVIDIA makes. The GPU stole the show, of course,...
Sort by MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
CPU vs GPU - paintball version (also known as the 80 nansecond Mona Lisa) via Buzzfeed . Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
Sort by Geekologie (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
In a demonstration at Nvidia's NVISION show, the Mythbusters used paintball guns to illustrate the difference between current CPUs and future GPUs. The CPU's stand in was a single paintball gun that repositioned itself after every shot in order create a picture. But the GPU was represented by an 1,100 barrel gun, which paints the entire Mona Lisa in a single blast. You can watch the first one if you...
Sort by Laughing Squid (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
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 Related PostsAsk A Ninja Meets The MythBusters25th Annual Coney Island Mermaid ParadeSony Bravia Play-Doh Bunnies CommercialThe Buzzball, [...] ShareThis
Sort by Hack A Day (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
Filed under: misc hacks , news [Adam] and [Jamie] from Mythbusters built a paintball gun with 1100 barrels as some graphics card marketing gimmick. It's a formidable beast, but we're sure it takes forever to prep. [via Laughing Squid ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Sort by YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) - 08/30/2008
I love Mythbusters. Consistently great television. As many of the lady readers know, us men are not that bright. We need to know if combining Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola will make our stomachs explode. (It's doesn't. Phew.) Or, can you...
Sort by The Next Web (Free subscription) - 09/22/2008
Ok, I tagged this Mischievous Monday Morning post with a ‘NSFW’ tag but if you have headphones you can check it out anyway! Here is a video where Will Ferrell reads and answers some of the fanmail he gets. There seems to be a recurring theme in the kind of questions Will gets and it [...]
Sort by 3quarksdaily (Free subscription) - 08/31/2008
And Mona Lisa painted another way:
Sort by Hacked Gadgets (Free subscription) - 08/31/2008
Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters built a huge paintball gun that can shoot 1100 paintballs in an blink of an eye. When the balls crash on the canvas you can see a picture of the Mona Lisa. This was an attraction at an Nvidia event, I wonder how much the unit cost! I guess when [...]
Sort by Impact Lab (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg In a presentation made at Nvidia’s NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and-in an instant-painted a pretty convincing (if slightly drippy) 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...
Sort by John Nack on Adobe (Free subscription) - 09/03/2008
Recent illustration finds: At the Nvision conference across from Adobe last week*, the Mythbusters guys showed how to paint the Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds. [ Via ] "Part medical and part American Apparel": Hipster anatomical drawings . [ Via ] Radiating: I want to run around with Dan Funderburgh's array of sharp things , letterpressed into a poster. Dig Sam Winston's pencil shavings . Hot cartographic...
Sort by Bow. James Bow. (Free subscription) - 08/30/2008
I realize it won’t last, but I still think it was good of John McCain to air an advertisement congratulating Barack Obama on his nomination. It certainly raises the tenor of this election above the dirty politics we saw during...
