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Kaveh Kardan

41. World Building And Alternate Reality Common Lisp

Time for another Interlude, wherein I take a break from my career journey and reflect on what we're doing. I say we, not because I have…

4 min readAug 16, 2022

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40. My Face On YouTube — Is That A Good Idea?

While the filming for Encounter was in pre-production, I had started work on the graphics for the game. What today we would call the…

3 min readJul 28, 2022

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40. My Face On YouTube — Is That A Good Idea?

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39. Metaprogramming, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let The Computer Write Code

John, my producer, rounded up a first rate crew and talented local actors for the video production the game would require. Given his…

4 min readJul 12, 2022

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38. A 3D CG FMV CD-ROM Game

In the mid-90’s, Apple's QuickTime VR was a hot new technology. Around the same time, Myst was the hot CD-ROM game.

3 min readJul 7, 2022

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38. A 3D CG FMV CD-ROM Game

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37. If Code Is Data, My Story Is A Database

I wanted to be organized, so as I wrote the screenplay for “Two Knights Defense”, I started putting parentheses around the text and before…

3 min readJun 30, 2022

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37. If Code Is Data, My Story Is A Database

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36. From Camcorder To Common Lisp

Oddly enough, I do remember that the idea for the web graphic novel came to me while I was cleaning beans at the kitchen table one day. I…

3 min readJun 29, 2022

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35. Two Knights Defense

A little flashback…

3 min readJun 24, 2022

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35. Two Knights Defense

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34. To Encapsulate Or Not To Encap

Around the time of Metropolis Graphics, I did some contract development for a Montreal company developing a GIS (geographic information…

3 min readJun 21, 2022

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34. To Encapsulate Or Not To Encap

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33. Hindsight Can Also Be Myopic

Long story short, we failed to get funding for our project and Metropolis Graphics withered on the vine, nothing more than the pipe dream…

3 min readJun 19, 2022

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33. Hindsight Can Also Be Myopic

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32. My Object Is Smarter Than Your Object

I still have the MCL code I wrote during the years of Metropolis Graphics. I found a comment dated 4 April 1992 in the matrix math file…

3 min readJun 17, 2022

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32. My Object Is Smarter Than Your Object

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Kaveh Kardan

Kaveh Kardan

MIT mathematics degree • wrote animation software used in “Jurassic Park” • software R&D lead on “Final Fantasy” movie • software dev on “The Hobbit” films

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