{"id":96511,"date":"2019-07-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/random_someone_has_recreated_the_mona_lisa_using_super_mario_world_sprites"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:00:00","slug":"random-someone-has-recreated-the-mona-lisa-using-super-mario-world-sprites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/12\/random-someone-has-recreated-the-mona-lisa-using-super-mario-world-sprites\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Someone Has Recreated The Mona Lisa Using Super Mario World Sprites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a2736bda2d9d9\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a2736bda2d9d9\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Super Mario World\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9543f03ec4855\/super-mario-world.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9543f03ec4855\/super-mario-world.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Mario World\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s Mona Lisa and Nintendo&#8217;s Super Mario are perhaps two of the most famous &#8216;M&#8217;s in the world. Amazingly, we&#8217;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&#8217;ll see today.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, introducing the Mona Mario? The Mario Lisa? The Super Mona? <em>You get the point<\/em>. The image before you shows the most famous piece of artwork in the world recreated using sprites from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_world\">Super Mario World<\/a><\/strong>. Technically, the sprites actually come from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_maker_2\">Super Mario Maker 2<\/a><\/strong>, but we&#8217;ll get to that in a minute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>The image was shared online by Reddit user, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/cc4ajp\/mona_lisa_recreated_using_super_mario_world\/\">listix<\/a>. 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&#8217;ve super-zoomed in for you below, in case you&#8217;re struggling to see.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Technology, huh? Where would we be without it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s Mona Lisa and Nintendo&#8217;s Super Mario are perhaps two of the most famous &#8216;M&#8217;s in the world. Amazingly, we&#8217;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&#8217;ll see today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}