100 Mind-Blowing Masterpiece Facts

It took 12 years to paint the Mona Lisa’s lips. Leonardo da Vinci took his sweet time on his masterpiece: Mona Lisa’s pretty pucker took 12 years to paint. Yes, just the lips.

Linux Visual Effects in Titanic and Avatar: For those who doubt Linux’s capabilities in animation, consider this: the Oscar-winning visual effects of James Cameron’s legendary film “Titanic” were crafted using Linux-powered machines. Even more impressively, “Avatar“, Cameron’s groundbreaking 3D cinematic masterpiece, marked the last movie to be entirely developed on a Linux platform using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) applications.