Communications - November 2009

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and home fit together for a complete whole.

I’ve never understood the practice of coming home from work and shutting down. Work is not the enemy of your life. If you’re at work and something happens at home you’ve got to take care of it, and vice versa.

Geomagic software is based on patented computational geometry technologies. What is it about computational geometry that appeals to you?

I was raised in China working with my hands in factories and in the countryside. I didn’t sit behind computers or books when growing up. I always liked to create tangible things.

I think of computer geometry as a digital version of real-world objects. Mathematically, that appeals to me. It’s a technology you can use to make all kinds of things. I realized from the beginning that this technology can revolutionize how we make products, especially personalized products, and that really excites me.

You have a rare skill: the ability to understand technology at the programming level, while seeing the bigger picture of its potential in the business world. how did that come about?

It probably comes from my childhood and not being able to go to school. The ability to imagine things— pretty things, beautiful things, useful things—became overly developed.