When I was working on The Sims 1, Luc Barthelet [1] was the VP who was closely shepherding the project, and he just loves to code his ideas up in Mathematica. (He later became executive director at Wolfram|Alpha.)
He would come over to my desk and show me some cool character animation trick he'd coded up in Mathematica, and suggest I implement it.
He had it reading in the Sims character animation files that I was exporting from 3D Studio Max, blending them together, drawing stick figures, and exporting web pages with animated gifs.
It's quite impressive what he can do with Mathematica, and of course I felt compelled to take some of his suggestions to heart and work on implementing them in the game.
But of course that pissed my direct manager off to no end, who insisted that Luc stop putting things on my plate without going through him first.
When I was working on The Sims 1, Luc Barthelet [1] was the VP who was closely shepherding the project, and he just loves to code his ideas up in Mathematica. (He later became executive director at Wolfram|Alpha.)
He would come over to my desk and show me some cool character animation trick he'd coded up in Mathematica, and suggest I implement it.
He had it reading in the Sims character animation files that I was exporting from 3D Studio Max, blending them together, drawing stick figures, and exporting web pages with animated gifs.
It's quite impressive what he can do with Mathematica, and of course I felt compelled to take some of his suggestions to heart and work on implementing them in the game.
But of course that pissed my direct manager off to no end, who insisted that Luc stop putting things on my plate without going through him first.
Luc's quite an animated character himself!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Barthelet