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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Utah teapot, the</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../U.html" title="U"/><link rel="previous" href="userland.html" title="userland"/><link rel="next" href="UTSL.html" title="UTSL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Utah teapot, the</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="userland.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="UTSL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Utah-teapot"/><dt xmlns="" id="Utah-teapot"><b>Utah teapot, the</b></dt></dt><dd><p>This object is historically one of the first complex 3D models to be
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rendered in computer graphics. It consisted of about 110 vertices, and was
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generated by Martin Newell in 1974 using hand-drawn Bezier curves, based on
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a real teapot that he and his wife had bought. This model served as a basis
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for comparing various 3D rendering methodologies for lighting, textures,
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bump-mapping, etc. By the standards of 2002, the model is trivial to render
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and thus is often not suited to demonstrate the complexity of modern
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research. Despite this, the tea pot still appears, now and then, in recent
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papers. More on the teapot's history lives at <a href="http://www.sjbaker.org/teapot/" target="_top">The History Of The Teapot</a>.
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