Marie Gibbons on sat 21 oct 00
Vince,
yup, i have seen this one too.... aol had a list of 'hidden eggs' that you
can find, and that was one of the ones they listed... there are a few fun
ones, but that is the only one 'pot' related.
Marie Gibbons
Arvada, Colorado
sculpture in clay & mixed media
www.oooladies.com
please visit my work, and sign the guestbook!
Thanks!!!
Larry Phillips on sat 21 oct 00
vince pitelka wrote:
>
> OK, yes, this is about pots. If any of you who have windows 98 have not
> tried it, you should engage the "3D pipes" screensaver. Not only is it one
> of the most interesting, but periodically, apparently entirely at random, at
> a 90 degree bend, a teapot miraculously appears. Has anyone else noticed
> this?
Yes. It's been in the 'Pipes' program for years. I don't know if it
makes any difference, but I find it best if I set the properties 'pipe
style' to 'traditional' and 'joint style = mixed'. I have a feeling that
the teapot appears in most, if not all of the renderings, but that it
usually isn't in a position to be seen. It's particularly cool when one
shows up front and center, edge on.
The teapot itself is homage to the 'Utah Teapot', an early standard for
testing ray tracing algorithms.
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vince pitelka on sat 21 oct 00
OK, yes, this is about pots. If any of you who have windows 98 have not
tried it, you should engage the "3D pipes" screensaver. Not only is it one
of the most interesting, but periodically, apparently entirely at random, at
a 90 degree bend, a teapot miraculously appears. Has anyone else noticed
this? I am not advocating sitting for hours on end staring at your screen
saver. One could waste a whole lot of time this way, but it is quite fun
when you are doing something else at your desk, and happen to glance up and
notice them. Some programmer had fun with that.
Best wishes -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Home - vpitelka@dekalb.net
615/597-5376
Work - wpitelka@tntech.edu
615/597-6801 ext. 111, fax 615/597-6803
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Tennessee Technological University
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Bob Owens on sun 22 oct 00
Vince,
I just had to respond to this one. YES, I saw the tea pot once
and thought it was about the most neat I have ever seen. Who would have ever
thought? Once I wanted to see how long it would take to see it and study it
a little and to see if I was not just imagining things. I just kept looking
and sure enough the tea pot came up twice at random.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: vince pitelka
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2000 10:00 PM
Subject: Microsoft "3D pipes" screensaver and teapots
>OK, yes, this is about pots. If any of you who have windows 98 have not
>tried it, you should engage the "3D pipes" screensaver. Not only is it one
>of the most interesting, but periodically, apparently entirely at random,
at
>a 90 degree bend, a teapot miraculously appears. Has anyone else noticed
>this? I am not advocating sitting for hours on end staring at your screen
>saver. One could waste a whole lot of time this way, but it is quite fun
>when you are doing something else at your desk, and happen to glance up and
>notice them. Some programmer had fun with that.
>Best wishes -
>- Vince
>
>Vince Pitelka
>Home - vpitelka@dekalb.net
>615/597-5376
>Work - wpitelka@tntech.edu
>615/597-6801 ext. 111, fax 615/597-6803
>Appalachian Center for Crafts
>Tennessee Technological University
>1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville TN 37166
>http://www.craftcenter.tntech.edu/
>
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Bruce Girrell on mon 23 oct 00
Vince,
It seems that in pottery one almost has to make at teapot at one time or
another (and if not a teapot, then a face mug). Apparently, the funkier, the
better. I've been able to resist the urge so far, but if I keep this clay
thing up long enough I know that I'll have to do it sooner or later. It's
just a fact of life.
Well, in computer science, the same is true. The teapot is ubiquitous
throughout computer graphics literature. It was first used, by Jim Blinn* I
think, as a test subject because of the odd curves and attachments. For some
reason, it just caught on. Everyone had to make a teapot. So now, if you're
going to prove your mettle at computer graphics, you probably have a teapot
somewhere in your portfolio.
Bruce Girrell
in northern Michigan
At one time I dreamed of being a computer graphics programmer. It still
fascinates me. People go to see Toy Story and see a fun animated cartoon. I
go and watch how they have applied gravity to objects, how the links of a
chain move relative to one another, how they have subsampled frames to apply
motion blur, how they have grown the trees and made the grass move. I see
the subtle references to past works - Tin Toy, Red's Dream, Knickknack - on
the library shelf and wonder what it must have been like to work with John
Lasseter and Edwin Catmull. Computer graphics was, and in a way still is, in
its infancy. Ray-tracing, radiosity, math and art combined - the best of
both worlds.
*If you have ever seen the NASA simulation of Voyager's Saturn fly-by, you
have seen Jim Blinn's work. He is one of the true pioneers of computer
graphics.
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