Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Nintendo's Super Mario are perhaps two of the most famous 'M's in the world. Amazingly, we've had to come up with a way of introducing both of these famous faces in the same sentence because one clever individual has created one of the most unexpected mashups you'll see today.
That's right, introducing the Mona Mario? The Mario Lisa? The Super Mona? You get the point. The image before you shows the most famous piece of artwork in the world recreated using sprites from Super Mario World. Technically, the sprites actually come from Super Mario Maker 2, but we'll get to that in a minute.
The image was shared online by Reddit user, listix. They say that they made a program which can recreate an image using sprites; for this particular example, the Super Mario World sprites found with Super Mario Maker 2 were used to make up the shapes and colours of the Mona Lisa. We've super-zoomed in for you below, in case you're struggling to see.
Technology, huh? Where would we be without it?
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Wow, that at first seems so inventive and talented, then you read how they did it and look at the brown blocks and you figure out it’s really quite dull.
At first I thought, wow bet that took ages, but then read its a program that builds the replica with sprites.
Erm, well done?
What is the point? (well I suppose you can say that about videogames)
So... why would you do that?
I'll be impressed if it's made with Super Mario Maker... lol
@Alpha008 Because why not?
Now watch as Nintendo tries to get this taken down for using their properties for free.
You lot talk as if writing a script to do this is easy.
Honestly, if they wrote the code for this themselves, that's just as impressive an achievement.
Never got the buzz about this painting. Do Las Meninas or Guernica with Mario’s face, then we’ll be talkin’
Aren't there online sites that do this? I've seen other famous paintings made with thousands of images.
This kind of tech has been around for soooo long. I had a poster as a kid, more than 25 years ago, that had Darth Vader made out of tiny images of scenes from the original trilogy. The fact that this is almost all just yellow and brown tiles makes it pretty dull. They should have recreated something colourful so that it could be full of Marios and Yoshis.
Well written, Ryan! Fun article.
Wow, impressive !
But i want to see Mario can possess Monalisa painting with his Cappy.
🤣🤣🤣
@Anti-Matter well we’ve seen mario go into paintings since 64.
Also that van Gogh starry starry night level...
What is that a screenshot of? Because it isn't Super Mario World. Those trees, the goombas, and that location are not in the original game. And I don't see the shadow effect from Mario Maker 2.
That top image isn't Super Mario World... those ain't goombas from SMW.
The thumbnail did nothing but fuel my imagination of her wearing a monocle.
I'd call it the Mariona Lisa.
I once did something similar with a photo of me made from photos of me.
I wonder what Da Vinci would make of this
Pretty impressive if they coded that themselves. Hey, why not?
Looks awesome. But kinda also shows me, that some people have to much free time.
@Jingo_Unchained I always think this. Isn't it a good thing to have free time? We'd all love more free time. Nobody ever goes, "I really wish my life was more busy, I hate having time for myself".
When the sprites are viewed at that tiny size, they may as well be individual pixels, so what's the "point"?
@SgtQuint Yeah, neither are those hills or trees.
Why does that first pic have SMB 3 goomba's in a SMW level?
This is so lame. It doesn't even deserve a article.
Meh at best.
I was impressed until I got to the point where it said a computer program did it, meaning the user had nothing to do with making it
@TheIronChimp well then you smart human thingy, try to recreate the code for this program. its sooooo easy, right?
Just some program at work...
@SniperGaming,
Okay, you have a point there. I couldn't do it myself.
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