[krisrm]

I'm sincerely hoping that whoever wrote this is a hockey fan.

(for those who aren't, Connor McDavid is arguably the best hockey player alive today)

[symmetricsaurus]

Most probably is rally driver Colin McRae[0], after whom a popular series of rally games are named[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McRae

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McRae_Rally_and_Dirt

(edit: formatting)

[alkonaut]

Indeed and the first part is the first scene done in any ray tracer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_box

[pixelpoet]

It's by far not the first scene done in any ray tracer, rather an early test scene for radiosity (diffuse-only global illumination, before path tracing was developed).

[alkonaut]

Oh I meant “when anyone today writes a toy ray tracer, this is usually the first scene you test with it”

[rzzzt]

Which one is the oldest, Utah teapot, bunny, dragon, default material cube?

[pixelpoet]

I'd guess the Utah teapot, it's been around since 1975. Cornell box is from 1984, and test scenes for materials are in some way a pretty recent thing, at least how they are used now; to me the modern versions started with Maxwell Render.

[651549846546]

I figured it's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McRae instead.

[publicola1990]

It is probably a play on Collin McRae. But McRae died under tragic circumstances and to me it felt slightly odd to allude to his name in this manner.

[cfcosta]

He also had a brilliant career as a driver, and people remember him very fondly. It's about the way he lived, not the way he died.