utah teapot, the

Utah teapot, the


   This object is historically one of the first complex 3D models to be
   rendered in computer graphics. It consisted of about 110 vertices, and
   was generated by Martin Newell in 1974 using hand-drawn Bezier curves,
   based on a real teapot that he and his wife had bought. This model
   served as a basis for comparing various 3D rendering methodologies for
   lighting, textures, bump-mapping, etc. By the standards of 2002, the
   model is trivial to render and thus is often not suited to demonstrate
   the complexity of modern research. Despite this, the tea pot still
   appears, now and then, in recent papers. More on the teapot's history
   lives at The History Of The Teapot. Compare {lenna}, {Stanford Bunny}