Stephanie, no exhibition on the significance of tea, tea ceremony, and
the accoutrements of tea distribution and consumption would be complete
without mention of the use of a mass-produced, modernist-style Melitta
teapot as the model for the first complex 3d shape to be digitally defined.
The Computer Museum naturally has the teapot, the data, and the story
(courtesy of Martin Newell, the researcher, and a friend of the Museum).
The rest of the story is that the teapot is now the object/image of
choice amongst the computer graphics set: interesting how one person's
taste for tea has so strongly imprinted what has always appeared to be
such a coffee-driven world. (Th real rest of the story is the correlation
between modernist styles and digital tools...)

Yours from behind the large iced,

Brian Wallace
The Computer Museum

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