Geometry is universal.
It pervades the warp and woof of nature, and is an essential tool for engineers, architects and cartographers. Given the power of the computer, computerized geometry has naturally become an essential tool for engineers and scientists designing jetliners, automobiles and even computer circuitry. Computer geometry is also essential to creating the molecular models used by chemists and drug designers. And the discipline lies at the heart of geometric imaging technologies that range from satellite pictures of Earth's surface to medical CAT scans of lungs and livers. The problem is that, like people speaking different languages, computers and geometry do not mesh well together.