The teapot is considered to be one of the first complex objects rendered in computer graphics and can sometimes be found as an Easter egg of sorts placed by 3-D graphic artists. Martin Newell created the first teapot rendering in 1974 or 1975 (accounts disagree). The teapot became a benchmark for graphics rendering. The actual teapot which Newell used as a model was on display at the Boston Computer Museum, which closed in 1999. Seth reports from his recent visit to the new Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, that the teapot is alive and well, residing in the Ephemera collection.