Quote: "DirectX has a MakeTeapot command"
Microsoft helps Java again; does Sun like C#?
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
32
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4,17,18,19,8,20,21,22,12,23,24,25,16,26,27,28
19,29,30,31,22,32,33,34,25,35,36,37,28,38,39,40
31,41,42,1,34,43,44,5,37,45,46,9,40,47,48,13
13,14,15,16,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60
16,26,27,28,52,61,62,63,56,64,65,66,60,67,68,69
28,38,39,40,63,70,71,72,66,73,74,75,69,76,77,78
40,47,48,13,72,79,80,49,75,81,82,53,78,83,84,57
57,58,59,60,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96
60,67,68,69,88,97,98,99,92,100,101,102,96,103,104,105
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121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136
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212,213,214,215,234,235,236,237,238,239,240,241,242,243,244,245
215,220,221,222,237,246,247,248,241,249,250,251,245,252,253,254
222,227,228,229,248,255,256,257,251,258,259,260,254,261,262,263
229,232,233,212,257,264,265,234,260,266,267,238,263,268,269,242
270,270,270,270,279,280,281,282,275,276,277,278,271,272,273,274
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270,270,270,270,291,298,299,300,288,295,296,297,285,292,293,294
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Im not sure if that's what you are looking for