Here is an article on the multi-talented Masi Oka, Hiro on Heroes. Read a snippet below.
Over breakfast recently at the SoHo Grand Hotel, Oka tried to explain how he did it. Picking up a pepper shaker, he asked, “If I was to recreate a model of this on computers, how would I do it?” He then went on to explain various ways to model objects: polygonal, in which large numbers of straight lines describe curves; NURBS, which stands for “nonuniform rational b-spline surfaces”; and SUBD surfaces, by which time he had totally lost his audience.
“I’m sorry I’m geeking out here,” he said.
Geeking out comes naturally to Oka, 31, who made the cover of Time magazine at the age of 10 as one of a group of “Asian-American whiz kids” and graduated from Brown University as a math and computer science major, with a minor in theater.
An IQ of 180. That is very intelligent.
Rob.
