It may look like an ordinary, white, every-day teapot but this simple design has had an enormous influence on the history of computing. Its name is Utah. This computer rendering of a standard white Melitta teapot as a 3D model has become the standard reference object for testing new applications. It is possibly the most famous data set in the world of computer graphics. The mathematical mo
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