About

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Fori is the person and 4E is the realization of a clever connection to the person.

I've been told that my name means, "To put your head to something" or "a Forest Of Recognized Importance". I guess people in my life who know me would tell you that metaphorically or metaforically, both may be true. I've been making interesting connections in my mind all of my life, some are just interesting and funny, others downright useful and amazing. All have allowed me to figure out and understand things in a unique way that I wouldn't change for the world. 

People who watched me grow up would probably tell you that, I have been a problem solver/problem preventer all of my life; and when I say all of my life, I mean it. Whether I liked it or not, it's what I was supposed to be. If you don't believe me, you can ask my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Sternstein-Lerner; apparently, she had a clue maybe even before I knew. When you look back at your old elementary school stuff, and find comments about you as a child, by your first-grade teacher, you would expect to read something like, "Little Fori likes story time and finger painting", but what I found in my report card was arguably one of the strangest things you could read about yourself as a five-year-old boy, but yet somehow explained everything to me; it read, "Fori likes spending time with adults and hearing about their problems."

Back in 1994, while traveling on the subway home from his office in Manhattan, NY using only a cryptic image that popped into his mind and a bag of multi-colored pipe cleaners, he pieced together a geometric solution to a complex algebraic surface problem, and ended up coding it into a fast display algorithm that would change the way Visual Effects/CGI would be done forever, and called it metaNURBS.

Unaware at the time, this simple act would prove the catalyst to set his mind and his life, on a journey that would lead him to understand and unravel things he had wondered about most of his life: 

• Is there order in what others perceive as chaos? 
• Why was he able to do what he could do?
• Think what he could think?
• See a solution to things that seem unsolvable? 

It's the mystery of how everything is connected, and how to use these connections and clues to find answers; answers that he says, "have always been there, waiting for us, since the beginning of time."

If you want to read the typical stuff about what I've done, and how, there's a small portion of it right after this. I understand that for people to figure out whether they should listen and try to consider what someone is saying, they need to know more about them and their credentials, but what I want you to understand more is the core of who I am, because my path, experience, and knowledge are not the typical route.

Sometimes it feels like something is placed into you, from the start, and what you do in your life depends on being able to find it, figure out a way to understand it, and use it for good; not just to help yourself, but to also help others. 

I have had the strangest things happen while I've been working on solving and understanding how the rules and mechanisms of everything around us seem to work; things that I can only describe as a feeling of being "lead" in a direction, "guided", and "encouraged" on a path by the Universe itself,  as if following a trail that had been laid for me, or anyone like me, to find. At times it felt like I was one of the few who had dared to venture this far with a purely open mind to see the possibility of what "is" and what "could be", and the reward was gaining an understanding of how to figure out how things really worked, and attempt to explain them in a way that would be difficult to describe any other way, than exactly the way I am trying to do it. In this experience, these words came to me as if my mind immediately understood; so few words that say so much to me, and maybe they will say something to you, and then you too may see:

"I'm not perfect, 

and the Universe never needed me to be; 

all it ever wanted me to find, 

were the perfect things 

for me to see." - 4E|Fori

Fori (a.k.a. 4E) is a pioneer in Computer Graphics and CGI, a Scientist, a Developer, an Engineer, a Unique Problem Solver, a Visionary, a Thinker of Big Thoughts, and an imperfect human being just like you. His unique way of seeing math and the world, as connections, patterns, and images, instead of just equations, has allowed him to create award-winning technology and solve problems in multiple industries, that were once thought to be too difficult or near impossible to accomplish. 

A graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, in the mid-'80s, he began his career in a tiny corner of an apartment on Cropsey Ave, in Brooklyn NY, where he created several ground-breaking mathematical and software solutions, that would forever change the world of Visual Effects through CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). In doing so, he unknowingly developed his own kind of visual mathematics, which allowed him to start understanding the forces and rules behind how the Universe works, in a whole new way. For him, it has filled in the gaps of theories and the unexplained in Math, Physics, and Life; with a way of thinking and understanding that is as successful as it is unusual. 

His uncanny ability to take complex subjects, and break them down into their simple core elements, allows him to explain things to you in a way that seems easier and more interesting to understand, than anyone has usually presented them to you before. He not only tells you the "what", but also tries to show you the "how" and the "why", as he sees it; giving you the possibilities, perspectives, and insights for you to try, so you can prove it to yourself.

If you would have pre-judged him by just his educational past, you would have been sorely mistaken about all he was about to accomplish:

In high school, he failed Geometry and Trigonometry twice and had to attend summer school and summer night school to graduate at age 17 with a 65 average, but there were two subjects he was introduced to: (Technical Drawing and Computer Science) that he excelled in with grades of 100 percent, and they made perfect sense for what he was about to do. 

It wasn't that he didn't know how to learn or was a bad student, it was more that he saw and understood the world and math,  in a completely different way than it was being presented to him. He saw it in an artistic way as patterns, curves, connections, and images, instead of just equations. Numbers and equations weren't just arbitrary symbols of confusion, but representations of what he saw as "the underlying tiny keys to something far more beautiful". 

He surprised his computer teachers when he told them he wasn't planning on going to college, but instead knew what he wanted to do, and was going to teach himself to do it.  There were no courses in exactly how he needed to learn it, so he was going to have to figure it out on his own, and he did, and went on to create some of the fastest, most innovative, and imitated technologies in the Visual Effects industry.

He was head of software development and later President of StationXStudios, (a Santa Monica, CA-based Visual Effects Studio in the late 90's), part of a team of talented people who were always pushing the edge of computer animation, rendering, and digital filmmaking.

As Co-President of pmG, he developed multi-award-winning Visual Effects, Animation, and Rendering Software, used for effects in some of your favorite movies, TV series, and computer games and used by people at companies from Microsoft to the US Navy, in more than 50 countries. His technology was even considered for a Technical Academy Award in the early 2000s.

He developed 3D screen technology that allows computer displays to show deep-depth stereoscopic images and video, without the need for goggles, 3D glasses, or headsets; (A technology that he just found out was granted a US Patent), along with Real-time 360 degree 3D stereo camera systems and streaming. He and his development partner on the project were invited, over 10 years ago, to demonstrate early proof-of-concept prototypes to companies like Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Intel. He's created technology that is sometimes so ahead of where the current industry is when he makes them, that there aren't machines made at the time that can run them, or produce what he needs, and he either has to design and build those himself too, or wait for an industry to catch up. 

History has now confirmed him as a visionary on more than one occasion: 

• He predicted the quick rise of Artificial Intelligence(AI) in high school (mid '80s)
• Understood and advanced the use of desktop computers for the creation of Digital Visual Effects (early '90s)
• He pioneered selling software over the Internet back in 1992, before it was generally understood that it would be used as the standard way of doing business
• Made history with a "Dare To Share" challenge of a viral crowd-funded approach, giving people all over the world a unique chance to get his software for a lower price than anything else of its kind was selling for, if they would put the word out enough for him to make it worth trying (before Kickstarter, GoFundMe and other concepts)

If you search Google Patents for his name, you'll find that he has foretold future technologies with filings of innovations such as: 

• Secure internet transactions for electronic payments, before Apple Pay and others existed, along with concepts of electronic money before Bitcoin 
• Electronic medical records portability
• Technologies for immersive 3D displays without needing VR headsets or 3D glasses

And now making history again, with a solution to prove The Collatz Conjecture, one of the most infamous math problems that no one could crack for more than 80 years, and says that this is only the beginning of what he has figured out...