BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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True or False:The Utah Teapot has appeared in The Simpsons, Monsters Inc. and Toy Story as an inside joke
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -This teapot that is seen during the Mrs. Nesbitt scene in Toy Story actually has a lot more significance than you think. It’s actually an in-joke for computer graphic artists as the teapot was created back in 1975 and was used as a reference for light, color, and shade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Detailed explanation-3: -The teapot model was created in 1975 by early computer graphics researcher Martin Newell, a member of the pioneering graphics program at the University of Utah. It was one of the first to be modeled using bézier curves rather than precisely measured.
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