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Utah Teapot

1974

Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum
Mountain View, United States

Martin Newell bought this teapot — later famous as a computer graphics model — in a Utah department store. The actual teapot is skinnier than many of its computerized images because the data was created for the rectangular pixels of early displays.

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  • Title: Utah Teapot
  • Date: 1974
  • Rights: © Mark Richards
Computer History Museum

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