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Nvidia’s Nvision 08 has now ended, and obviously there were many technical and graphical things on display at the event that many people in the computing world would care about. Graphics card and CUDA related stuff mostly. [Here endeth the "technical" part of the post...]
Among the other events were a live Diggnation, a lanparty and Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters. As in those guys that throws a dummy into a burning vehicle full of explosives to see if the moon landings really happened (Or at least I would guess, I haven’t seen that episode yet so I can only speculate on what experiments they would end up doing to prove or disprove that).
The Myth-Duo had decided to show the difference between a CPU and a GPU using a medium known for expertly demonstrating such technical changes: paintballs.
Video after the jump…
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Firstly, they demonstrate using a robot arm with a paintball gun aiming and firing at different parts of a canvas to make a smiley face. That in itself is impressive, but as it shows the CPU side of things (and that this conference is Nvidia’s baby), they use more impressive equipment to demo how the GPU works. Using thousands of loaded barrels and a few large pressured airtanks, they fired an entire image of balls at a canvas at the same time, creating an image of the Mona Lisa as if she was on an episode of Cops.
Granted, the image was pixelated, but bear in mind it was pretty much instantly appearing on the canvas instead of bit by bit.
Highly impressive to watch, and I can only hope someone starts doing sellable paintings using this technique. I have a bare wall in the bathroom…
[Video via a friend that visits Overclock.net]
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Justin Lee