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Geek Culture / Everything you need to know about the Utah Teapot

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BatVink
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 16:41
Even for those who know about the Utah Teapot, this is a very good and detailed read. Did you know, for example, that DirectX has a MakeTeapot command, or that the original teapot is taller, and is now in a museum?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Teapot



Van B
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 17:06
I remember reading about this years ago.

Aparantly some engineers could enter it live, like enter the number values of the edit points from memory alone . Imagine walking round with the coordinates of a teapot model rattling inside your head, some people have too many cells!.

Damn 3D started out complex!, even POV, the ancient grandfather of hobbyist raytracing was a nightmare, like a programming language more than anything.

Can anyone post the mesh data as a code snippet here? .

Aegrescit medendo
Tachyon
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 17:48
Quote: "DirectX has a MakeTeapot command"


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http://news.com.com/2061-10808_3-5709266.html


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See the connection?
No realy, according to the wikipedia "it has become a standard reference object (and something of an in-joke) in the computer graphics community. "

So it looks like everything can be turned out to be a big conspiracy theory.

Wikipedia had a link "original data set":
http://www.sjbaker.org/teapot/teaset.tgz
teapot file inside the archive

Im not sure if that's what you are looking for

spooky
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 17:48
If you use Cloggys DLL, there is a handy command called D3D_MAKE_TEAPOT. You can then get all the vertex info from it.

Boo!
Scilynt
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 23:25
And the only reason that the DLL has a teapot command, is because I noticed it was available in DX.
Matt Rock
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Posted: 24th May 2006 04:52
<-- must be a noob as he doesnt' know what a utah teapot is... but assumes it has something to do with mormons


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