Nikon Sugar

Thinking and making, in the open.

A personal home for scientific-grade essays, long-form books, and artwork — written and built with care, and meant to last.

What you'll find here

Long-form writing held to a publisher's standard — mathematics, figures, citations and footnotes, with a clean print and PDF.

Chaptered, book-length work with a table of contents, book-level references, and a whole-book PDF.

Photography, audio, video and painting — self-hosted or embedded, presented simply.

I write to think more clearly and build to understand more deeply. This is where that work lives — unhurried, and in my own words.