From RedIdaho and others on instapundit comments:
That Teapot is the reference used as the first 3d object to ever be render computers. It is so famous there are mathematical formulas that describe it....
GeorgeTurner added:
It was foundational in learning to do computer rendering and ray tracing. The tea pot was described mathematically, perhaps one of the first common, real-world, 3-D objects so described, so all the graphics programmers used it for improving their algorithms and programs, leading us into the world of CGI. Everybody rendered that teapot, in countless situations. ETA: Basically, that teapot was part of what moved us from 8-bit Atari graphics to photo-realistic CGI images.
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