nikhil.io

A drawing of me by my buddy Mark Vollenweider of Iowa City

Hello!

I’m Nikhil Anand. I’m a student at the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where I’m learning to love and survive both graduate school and New York City as my wife and our diva husky send me good vibes from home in Iowa

Here’s a little more about me and what I’m up to now. I’d love to hear from you and hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽

Socials

Log

  • A procedurally generated, infinite scrolling, calming, Chinese ink-painting style landscapeSource. Uses Perlin Noise for those beautiful mountain peaks.
  • This lovely project draws outlines of all $CITY's roadsUses the OpenStreetMaps API. You can customize the colors too! Source on Github. Uses Protobufs to store and index 3,000 cities with > 100K people for speed (and to be kind to the OpenStreetMaps API.) Lovely.
  • Software and PlumbersI’m trying to recreate the home I grew up in as a relaxing sideproject. First digitally and then in foamcore. Love me a good dollhouse. I remembered Sweet Home 3D which I thought was FOSS. Clicking the download link on the website took me to the Ap
  • To be a LeaderYou must be able to: Manage expectations. Deliver bad news. Assume responsibility and blame. Serve the people on your team. You serve people by: Offering a clear vision of where you are going together. Clearing paths they will walk on. Be
  • Louis CK Wants to Buy a HouseI watch this whenever I need a solid laugh. Yet to fail me. The accountant’s played by Peter Hans Benson who, I submit, deserves an Emmy for just this scene.
  • One thing led to another on the Open Internet and I came by this curious and lovely short story by artist Charlie White called “The Beatrice Davenport Morands” (cached HTML) who wrote it for Public Fiction magazine in 2013.

Photos

😌Pro Ecclesia DeiTokyo Drift0049Sleeping Beautythey are witty and transform themselves in order to guide us (2025)A Horse by Deborah ButterfieldA Horse by Deborah ButterfieldWater Woman by Wangechi Mutu004300430042El Rey0040

Reading

Watching

  • Midnight Mass
    Rating: B+
  • Gone (BBC)
    Rating: C+
  • Killer Joe
    Rating: B+
  • The Beguiled
    Rating: D+
  • The Odyssey
    Rating: A
  • Disclosure Day
    Rating: C
  • Citizen Vigilante
    Rating: F
  • Pluribus - Season One
    Rating: A
  • Judgement at Nuremberg
    Rating: A+
  • Heretic
    Rating: B-
  • The Asset
    Rating: B-
  • Next Floor
    Rating: B+

Listening

      Playing

      • The Shivah
        Rating: A
      • Monument Valley III
        Rating: A
      • Sky Force: Reloaded
        Rating: A
      • Kids
        Rating: B
      • Art Plunge
        Rating: B
      • Frost
        Rating: B
      • Florence
        Rating: B+
      • Starman
        Rating: A

      Enjoying

      • Learning by Jared French
        Jared French
        Learning 1946
      • Agnus by Konstantin Korobov
        Konstantin Korobov
        Agnus 2022
      • BRICK BLOSSOM by Charles Simonds
        Charles Simonds
        BRICK BLOSSOM 1981
      • TIGHTROPE: NOISELESS 12 by Elias Sime
        Elias Sime
        TIGHTROPE: NOISELESS 12 2019
      • TON PIED MON PIED (YOUR FOOT, MY FOOT) by Romuald Hazoumè
        Romuald Hazoumè
        TON PIED MON PIED (YOUR FOOT, MY FOOT) 2011
      • SKY FARM by Helen Frankenthaler
        Helen Frankenthaler
        SKY FARM 1972
      • THREE FRIENDS by John Currin
        John Currin
        THREE FRIENDS 1998
      • STRUCTURIST RELIEF, RED WING #50 by Charles Joseph Biederman
        Charles Joseph Biederman
        STRUCTURIST RELIEF, RED WING #50 1960-1966
      • ABSTRAKTER KOPF: INNERES SCHAUEN-GRAU-BLAU-ROSA (ABSTRACT HEAD: INNER VISION-GREY-BLUE-PINK) by Alexei Jawlensky
        Alexei Jawlensky
        ABSTRAKTER KOPF: INNERES SCHAUEN-GRAU-BLAU-ROSA (ABSTRACT HEAD: INNER VISION-GREY-BLUE-PINK) 1927
      • PEPPER NO. 30 by Edward Weston
        Edward Weston
        PEPPER NO. 30 1930
      • UNCLOSED by Julie Mehretu
        Julie Mehretu
        UNCLOSED 2007
      • HOCHOFEN (BLAST FURNACES) IMAGE V, FROM THE SERIES "TYPOLOGIES" by Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher
        Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher
        HOCHOFEN (BLAST FURNACES) IMAGE V, FROM THE SERIES "TYPOLOGIES" 2007
      • BETWEEN BEARS EARS AND DANEROS MINE, FROM THE SERIES"...THERE IS STILL POETRY" by Mary Mattingly
        Mary Mattingly
        BETWEEN BEARS EARS AND DANEROS MINE, FROM THE SERIES"...THERE IS STILL POETRY" 2018
      • PRAIRIE CAIRN/ FOR MY FATHER/ GRINNELL, IOWA by Andy Goldsworthy
        Andy Goldsworthy
        PRAIRIE CAIRN/ FOR MY FATHER/ GRINNELL, IOWA 2001-2002
      • Mnemonics of Shape and Reason by Sky Hopinka
        Sky Hopinka
        Mnemonics of Shape and Reason 2021
      • SPIRIT AT DEATH, BEFORE DEPARTURE by Amy Putney Koenig
        Amy Putney Koenig
        SPIRIT AT DEATH, BEFORE DEPARTURE 2026

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