Adam and Jamie of Mythbusters render a painting of the Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds using 1,100 simultaneously firing paintguns. WHEE!

This was part of an NVIDIA graphics presentation, intended to demonstrate the principle of parallel computing: if you can compute all the pieces simultaneously using separate circuitry, that is often faster than doing them sequentially. Yes, things are more complicated than that in real life, but graphics does lend itself to parallelism and GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) do tend to be massively parallel.

Ganked from nohx.

Tags: geek, graphics