Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!gpraman
From: gpraman@sdrc.UUCP (raman srinivasan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: polyhedra models
Summary: The origins of the teapot
Keywords: tetrahedron dodecahedron hexahedron
Message-ID: <120@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 12:57:37 GMT
References: <1358@kluge.fiu.edu> <937@sunc.osc.edu> <12483@accuvax.nwu.edu>
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In article <12483@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
> While we are on the subject, does anyone know where a set of points exists
> that defines the famous teapot?  
> 

Check out the Jan. 1987 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & applications
pages 8-19.  The article is called Displays on Display / The origins
of the teapot by Frank Crow, Xerox PARC.  It has the Bezier patch 
definition, the data vertices and some Pascal code to display the
wireframe.  There's a little box in the article that says contact
Chip Hatfield at HATFIELD@LL-ICDC.ARPA for code/data.  I have no
ideas if its still out there.  Good Luck.