Teapots in Non-teamaking Contexts
A teapot has a rather peculiar shape, and its fame has often nothing to do with its primary function.
- The Utah Teapot is a standard reference object of the computer graphics community, comparable to Hello, World for its popularity. It is included as a graphics primitive in many graphics packages, including AutoCAD, POV-Ray, OpenGL, Direct3D, and 3ds Max.
- Russell's teapot, a skeptic analogy refuting the unfalsifiability of religious claims devised by Bertrand Russell.
- The teapot has been featured in the nursery rhyme, "I'm a Little Teapot".
- Part of the constellation of Sagittarius contains an asterism (or a star pattern not officially recognized as a constellation) that famously resembles a teapot.
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