Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Painting the Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds

Link to blog;
http://artid.com/members/art_video_blog/blog/post/1913-mona-lisa-smile?SES=03e5f24ebdeb4ffe7c7
Link to video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg


The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings out there. And practically everybody knows what it is. The guy who wrote the blog had joked earlier that Leonardo DaVinci had painted the portrait in an instant. I assume after his blog joke some people were able to get a hold on the Discovery Channel's MythBusters.

Adam and Jamie from the Mythbusters built a paint gun that looks unique in itself. Using this paint gun and the assumption that they had to program each individual gun on it(1100 guns). It is incredibly interesting to see that it is possbile to paint such a famous portrait(or something close to it) an the blink of an eye!

1 comment:

  1. This is fascinating! I'm glad that you posted this, as it's something that may be of use in some of my future courses.

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