Fun 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:
That'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).
I 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.
Advertisement-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 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 :)
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 71.7 ms ] threadOne paint gun is slow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=2m53s
Painting with many guns simultaneously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=8m12s
Slow mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4#t=9m02s
Still entertaining though.
I'm impressed by the fact that someone actually took the time to build that thing.
Status: Busted
Next up: Is the taste of Cheerios really unsinkable?
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 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 :)