Isaac Velando

An idea is a good place to start.

I make things to explore what interests me—from the beauty of mathematics to the small problems of everyday life. This is a home for those side projects.

Take a look around

Made out of curiosity.

Tools, experiments, and other detours.

Mathematical art

Tangent Garden

A notebook for the beauty hidden in geometry. Explore curves, light, and constructions in two, three, and four dimensions—and make a little mathematical art of your own.

An experiment in scale

Shelf Life

Step into a library of every possible book. Read, search, and try to comprehend its impossible scale. An interactive homage to A Short Stay in Hell and The Library of Babel.

A practical what-if

moneypath

Sketch different financial futures and see how they unfold, month by month. Compare income, spending, loans, and investments in a simulator that keeps your data in your browser.

An unofficial fan atlas

Tom’s Crossing Map

A tabletop companion to Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel. Follow characters through an illustrated landscape and journal, revealing the story only as far as you’ve read.

Useful things, made physical

Household 3D

Small improvements for everyday life, designed and 3D printed. A collection of functional household objects, with the thinking, iterations, and lessons behind each design.

Archived blog · 2014

grepLinux

An earlier corner of the internet: writing about Linux, security, and privacy. Preserved as an archive of what I was learning and thinking about at the time.