Look what I found today!

[thalia@discuss.systems]

Look what I found today! It's Martin Newell's dissertation on procedural modeling, with the first appearance of the Utah teapot! 🧵

Scan: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s651906h

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #graphics #utah

[thalia@discuss.systems]

A rendering of the full tea set:

[thalia@discuss.systems]

The first teapot renderings and the other items in the tea set:

[raccoonformality@tech.lgbt]

@thalia that's so so cool

[thalia@discuss.systems]

Renderings of Ivan Sutherland's Volkswagen:

[thalia@discuss.systems]

361 chess pawns and a Snoopy carousel:

[ashguy@infosec.exchange]

@thalia opponent does this opening and I'm fucked as black. any advice?

[secretasianman@types.pl]

@thalia

[thalia@discuss.systems]

The dissertation is tucked away on a shelf in the copy room! I found it while scanning exams. It needs a better home (I volunteer ).

[thalia@discuss.systems]

The cover and whole shelf:

[thalia@discuss.systems]

Here's a photo of the group measuring Sutherland's Volkswagen, in the Computer History Museums's collection:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102714326/

[datassette_user@oldbytes.space]

@thalia Awesome! All of it!

[secretasianman@types.pl]

@thalia he was/is? my undergraduate adviser so I am loving all of this

(he says it's a life appointment)