page_title: University of Utah School of Computing
section_title: Utah Teapot
hierarchical_section_title: University of Utah School of Computing / History / Utah Teapot
caption_attribution_description: English: The Utah teapot is one of a handful of iconic models from the early development of 3D computer graphics, having been developed by Martin Newell and modified by his co-worker, Jim Blinn in 1975.
context_page_description: The School of Computing is a school within the College of Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
context_section_description: The Utah Teapot is one of most iconic image in computer graphics. It was designed by Martin Newell, inspired by an actual Melitta teapot he purchased from a department store in Salt Lake City. Newell was a student of Evans, graduating in 1975, and then a member of the faculty from 1975 to 1977. Originally the teapot was sketched by hand using paper and pencil. Newell then edited bezier control points on a Tektronix storage tube. With this information he created a dataset of mathematical coordinates and a 3-D wire framing. The Utah Teapot was one of the first widely available and photogenic curved-surface 3-D models, an early high-quality virtual object. For this reason, it became a common benchmark model for image synthesis programs.
caption: The Utah teapot, a model by Martin Newell (1975).
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