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The Return of the Utah Teapot - SIGGRAPH 2026

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Cem Yuksel, Martin Newell, Jim Blinn

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The Return of the Utah Teapot - SIGGRAPH 2026 is a recorded SIGGRAPH session hosted by Cem Yuksel with Martin Newell and Jim Blinn, fifty years after the teapot's first SIGGRAPH appearance. It blends Utah graphics history with how that research shaped modern pipelines.

The panel revisits the teapot's modeling origins, its iconic role in demos and textbooks, and perspectives from researchers behind early rasterization and shading culture. Audience Q&A highlights practitioner memory of foundational techniques still visible in today's engines.

All levels of graphics practitioners interested in history enjoy it; deep math is not the focus.

Free on Yuksel's YouTube as conference-style video.

SIGGRAPH history sessions with Newell and Blinn draw strong replay interest across graphics education communities.