About

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

Fori Owurowa (4E|FORI), a native New Yorker currently based in San Tan Valley, Arizona, applies his problem-solving ability and Human Intelligence Technology, to solving some of the world’s most difficult unsolved problems, about us, the Universe and how it all works together. He's a multi-award-winning pioneer in VFX/CGI software Technology and holds a US Patent for 3D Display Technology (Google Patents link). His metaNURBS® surface technology, and VFX/CGI software (www.projectmessiah.com), have transformed the creation of VFX for more than 20 years.  

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, (PS 11) 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."

Growing up in the Clinton Hill, and Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, and a graduate of Brooklyn Tech High School, without any further College education, he would go on to teach himself computer graphics and figure everything out that he would need to change an industry.

In 1994, while traveling home on the subway 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? 

This is 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."