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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

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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