Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Feb 2008 21:27 UTC
"As anyone who is into 3D computer graphics knows, there is something mysterious and special about The Teapot. It's not just any teapot - it's 'the' teapot. The teapot was made by Melitta in 1974 and originally belonged to Martin Newell and his wife, Sandra - who purchased it from ZCMI, (a department store in Salt Lake City). The teapot was eventually donated to the Boston Computer Museum but now resides in the Ephemera collection of the Computer History Museum. It's cataloged as 'Teapot used for Computer Graphics rendering' and bears the catalog number X00398.1984."
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2008-02-28
True CG geeks will remember the SIGGRAPH in 1989 when the five basic solid geometric forms proven by the ancient Greeks was extended from five to six. The historical solids, the cube, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron were augmented by the most recent discovery, the Teapotahedron.
It was a discovery greeted with much enthusiasm by all, with the teapotahedron being famous ever since.