Painting the Mona Lisa, MythBusters style

Oh, the MythBusters. While it might only resemble science in the most abstract of senses, the way that soy milk resembles an opaque white liquid from the mammary gland of female mammals, pound for pound you’d be hard pressed to find a more entertaining hour of television. In my house, the show gets TiVo’d, watched and re-watched religiously.

For your viewing pleasure, see attached a video of Adam and Jamie painting the Mona Lisa, instantly, using a gigantic contraption with 1,100 individual paint balls firing through 1,100 individual barrels against a canvas. To put it succinctly: absolutely bonkers.

Video below, after the break.

Oh, and you won’t be seeing this on any upcoming episode of MythBusters, either. Adam and Jamie appear to have been subcontracted out by computer graphic card maker Nvidia to appear at their trade show NVISION to put on said demonstration to “illustrate” the advantage of GPUs over CPUs in current-generation computing, discussing the advantage of parallel processing in…

You know what? Forget I said anything. Just watch this video. Seriously, it’s the best thing you’ll see all day.

(via Gizmodo)