very old screensavers (and teapots)

In message , Paul
writes:
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Here, the Teapot in (f), enjoys some Gouraud shading.
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First, there was Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D.

Then came Paul's Teapot in (f).
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I'm a gay man in a woman's body - and I love it! - Sheridan Smith (actress),
in Radio Times, 3-9 April 2010

On 2/23/2014, J. P. Gilliver (John) posted:

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Also: the "pipes" 'saver used to have random teapots if set up
correctly (they appeared as about 1 joint in 1000), but this was
removed from XP onwards. Anyone know why? (Was it pressure from
industry, who found their employees spent too much time
teapot-spotting?)

OK, I never knew this, which is why your reply in my Magritte subthread
mystified me completely!

Thanks, my ignorance has now evaporated. (OK, only *some* of it!)

(Anyone know what byte or pair of bytes hold the teapot ratio, in the
old .scr file?)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 2/23/2014, J. P. Gilliver (John) posted:
In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

That's definitely _not_ what I had in mind (-:! I just meant the
Utah teapots in the pipes screensaver. (And from that description,
I think they may be thinking of a whistling kettle: teapots don't
make a sound.)

Examples here.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/493.html

And it's an OpenGL based screensaver. That
page says "Windows NT Easter Egg".

Says NT 3.5 or above. But I know it's there in the Win9x version, and
_not_ in the XP one (I think not in 7 either).

The Utah Teapot appeared enough times in
my graphics magazine, so it would be somewhat
of an inside joke.
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Very much so, in that it was the first everyday object to be
digitised - look it up on Wikipedia if interested. (The original
Melitta teapot - now in a museum! - is taller; someone at one point
reduced the vertical scale, liked the result, and saved the result.)

While looking around, I found this - the humour will only appeal to
those with a certain kind of programming experience, but it gave me
some belly-laughs: http://bit.ly/OqusCh

I wonder if they are in some danger of copyright infringement vis-à-vis
Java...

Thanks - I had been totally unaware of HTCPCP.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)