Mythbusters recreate Mona Lisa with massive 2100 cannon paintgun turret

Posted by John Brownlee, August 29, 2008 2:40 AM | permalink

Sheer awesomeness: this week at Nvidia's Nvision tradeshow, Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman used a massive 2100 barrel paint gun turret to create a pixel art rendition of the Mona Lisa in under 275 milliseconds. The thesis of the experiment was absurd — something about how only an Nvidia GPU can handle the raw processing power required to generate 45 square pixels of pixel art — but we're still impressed. And we're not the other ones: our inside NERF sources are whispering to us that they are already looking into harnessing the technology to create a Japan-only successor to the Oozinator.

Mythbusters duo launches new GeForce, codenamed Mona Lisa [TG Daily]

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#1 posted by Marley9 , August 29, 2008 3:54 AM

Sheer awesomeness. I am at a loss for words.

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#2 posted by alisong76 , August 29, 2008 5:30 AM

God I love those guys.

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#3 posted by themindfantastic , August 29, 2008 6:39 AM

While I am smart enough to know that a lot of the stuff those two do is probably incredibly dangerous and the admonishment to never try any of that at home 'EVER' is for my safety, the childlike side of me just thinks they say it to keep all the really fun stuff to themselves.

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#4 posted by airship , August 29, 2008 7:09 AM

WANT!

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#5 posted by SamF , August 29, 2008 7:27 AM

That.

Was.

AWESOME!

Now they need to make it fire 24 rounds per second and do some animation.

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#6 posted by edgore

, August 29, 2008 7:46 AM

While I am sure the rig probably only costs about $100, the ink cartridges are 25K and they are set up with a DMCA enforced protection scheme so you HAVE to buy them from the manufacturer.

Honestly though - freaking awesome.

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#7 posted by dralter , August 29, 2008 3:26 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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#8 posted by Lonin , August 30, 2008 1:59 AM

@5: Although you were joking, they could never consistently get 24 shots per second (per barrel) out of any gun they create. Even high-end guns specifically made to shoot as fast as possible can't hit that speed with any regularity.

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#9 posted by Anonymous , August 30, 2008 6:21 AM

@5,6: To take the joke further I think the metal storm weapons system prototype probably could handle a job like that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6YvWxtrxw&feature=related

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#10 posted by kaiza , August 30, 2008 7:32 AM

This looks like the perfect civilian application for Metal Storm technology!