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CPU vs. GPU
- nagnatron 16y agoThat was quite gimmicky.
- maika 16y agoThe Redditer in me perhaps is impressed, the Y is disappointed that it offers no real insight.
- imurray 16y agoFun with paint guns, but they take quite a while to get on with it. The key points take a few seconds, and even they aren't very illuminating, just fun: One paint gun is slow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=2m53s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=2m53s Painting with many guns simultaneously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=8m12s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=8m12s Slow mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=9m02s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=9m02s
- danpker 16y agoThe slow motion shot looks incredible
- yread 16y ago[2008]
- tta 16y agoSo many kinds of awesome.
- KeithMajhor 16y agoThis is oversimplified. The whole demonstration plays like an advertisement.
- ugh 16y agoWhich is hardly a surprise because the Mythbusters are originally special effects guys who worked on their fair share of ads.
- stan_rogers 16y agoThat's because it is one. Of a sort, at least. It was a product/platform conference presentation, and what you were seeing was the C-level summary keynote (and an adrenaline generator for the devs attending the conference).
- dennisgorelik 16y agoWhy did they disable comments under the video?
- alnayyir 16y agoBecause it's pretty obviously an advertisement with no real insight. Still entertaining though.
- dennisgorelik 16y agoDiscussion under advertisement would have made that advertisement more efficient.
- yosho 16y agowhile it offers no true insight on CPU vs GPU, let's be real, that gun was feakin awesome. I'm impressed by the fact that someone actually took the time to build that thing.
- andreyf 16y agoI think it's more a matter of funding, which a GPU manufacturer provided. That this was shown to a crowd of what looks like high schoolers, that's a bit morally dubious, in my opinion.
- shasta 16y agoMyth: GPUs are not more awesome than CPUs Status: Busted Next up: Is the taste of Cheerios really unsinkable?
- alassehz 16y agoHighlights parallelism performance in an entertaining way
- parallax7d 16y agoThe Mona Lisa looked a bit like Patrick Steward in a wig.
- emit_time_n3rgy 16y agoAdvertisement-like: Yes, but also contradicting high resolution graphics by creating a Mona Lisa that looked like an 8-bit game avatar. Impressed with the effort to build it: Yes, but I think nVidia has a large budget for such pursuits. Parallel performance shown: Yes, but without making analogies between the giant gun and GPU clear (more titillation than articulation). Insight into parallel performance: No Oversimplified: Yes cma posting this link http://i.imgur.com/TvOip.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TvOip.jpg was cool, and this brought to my attention that although the video may not have sparked any insights, it could provoke the HN community to bring insight into the topic. The video also caused me to try and imagine something more insightful. The slow motion shot could technically be considered "insightful" since in real motion we could not see what the slow motion gave us access into seeing, therefore this could be called "in-sight-ful," no? This also made me recall an invention I thought of for fun...a wall climbing robot (vacuum?) that has a schematic of the dimensions of the building it is climbing in its bot-brain along with a graphic it is to spray and it goes to work until finished as if the building was paper and the bot a printer. In a community like this, a cool/fun/entertaining piece of in-formation that may not provide great insight but can be enough to spark creative powers regardless. Maybe not 100% of the time, but in this case, for me, I think it provided something and provoked me to want to share my first post at HN. Thank you :)
- mambodog 16y agoIt's a shame they didn't build a parallel version of the robot, especially if it could 'render' an animated image.