Viva Wikipedia

Despite only half-century history, CG has some icons and legends, which are worth being aware of – something that I find extremely inspirational or something that could bring you several points on a geeky party. Here are few links:

The best quality image I managed to find on a web – the first photorealistic render ever, done by Bui Tuong Phong, Robert McDermott, Jim Clark and Raphael Rom. The PDF with some amazing details.

Martin Newell’s teapot, squeezed later by Blinn and strongly (and wrongly) associated with 3DSMAX.

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A Cornell Box, Lenna and a Stanford Bunny as some starting points for further digging.