alt Hacker NewsI work at the University of Utah. They had an incredible graphics symposium a few years ago[0]. I got a render of the teapot signed by several of the speakers, which is a prized possession. There was another guy there with an actual replica teapot which he got signed. I was pretty jealous.
Sadly Alan Kay was unable to attend so I didn't get to meet him.
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OhMeadhbh • today at 3:15 AM
I was at the same event. I got to hold it. It was a bit of a thrill.
vconnor • today at 10:37 AM
I love the association of University of Utah -> Utah teapot -> 3D computer graphics.
Incidentally, I've been following the incredible Interactive Graphics course on YouTube by Cem Yuksel (mentioned in TFA for his improved teapot): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCuWQV_-Es&list=PLplnkTzzqs...
I did the high school summer computing institute at the U in the early 2000s. The first part of it was working with C shape edit and doing graphics with alpha_1 and a bunch of other fun things, the second part was building a rover in Lisp.
Alpha_1 has a direct lineage from the development of the teapot and was the basis of Featurecam