https://scoutfin.net/tags/computer-graphics/ Recent content in Computer-Graphics on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:02:11 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-11-05-everyones-teapot-is-the-wrong-height/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:02:11 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-11-05-everyones-teapot-is-the-wrong-height/ Yesterday I was reading the source of a website screensaver, a loving remake of the old Windows 3D Pipes, and found a line that said teapotChance: 0.001. About one joint in a thousand, the pipes sprout a teapot instead. It is a tribute to the original screensaver, which did the same thing, and the original was itself a tribute to the most famous object in computer graphics. In 1975 Martin Newell at the University of Utah needed a simple, familiar shape to test rendering on.