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Survey of Standing Water, generative plate from seed 1474516606Three grids of parallel lines drawn over one another and rotated about the centre: one at zero, one at a small angle between 1.2 and 7.2 degrees, and a third at a negative fraction of that angle in an accent colour. The interference figure is never drawn. It is what your eye does with three grids that do not quite agree. This plate is seed 1474516606 in the Kyrenia Blue palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

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Survey of Standing Water

Every line had a reason, and none of the reasons was taste. Whatever you find in it, you brought with you.

No author. Drawn by the moire system from seed 1474516606.

Medium
Generative plate, deterministic SVG rendered from a 32-bit seed
Dimensions
800 × 800 units, resolution-independent
System
moire
Palette
Kyrenia Blue
Seed
1474516606
Added
7 September 2026
Rights
© 2026 artcyp.com

Three grids of parallel lines drawn over one another and rotated about the centre: one at zero, one at a small angle between 1.2 and 7.2 degrees, and a third at a negative fraction of that angle in an accent colour. The interference figure is never drawn. It is what your eye does with three grids that do not quite agree. This plate is seed 1474516606 in the Kyrenia Blue palette.

Reactions are counts only. Nothing about who you are is recorded.

Same palette, same system

Approach to the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 201824386Streamlines through a fixed vector field. Each of 220 lines starts at a random point and takes 110 steps of five units, turning at every step by the sum of three sinusoids of its current position. A line stops early if it leaves the plate. Roughly one line in seven is drawn in an accent rather than the ink colour, and each is given its own width and opacity. This plate is seed 201824386 in the Kyrenia Blue palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the August Reservoir

It has been drawn thousands of times and has never once varied.

Provisional the Green Line, generative plate from seed 2459297282Forty-six bands stacked from the top down, each one a closed shape lying between two sine curves of differing amplitude, frequency and phase. The bands overlap, because each advances the cursor by only 62% of its own height. About one band in six is filled in an accent at higher opacity than the rest; the stack stops early if it runs past the bottom edge. This plate is seed 2459297282 in the Kyrenia Blue palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the Green Line

Where it seems to hesitate, that is the rule doing what it always does.

After Standing Water, generative plate from seed 1446647093Forty-six bands stacked from the top down, each one a closed shape lying between two sine curves of differing amplitude, frequency and phase. The bands overlap, because each advances the cursor by only 62% of its own height. About one band in six is filled in an accent at higher opacity than the rest; the stack stops early if it runs past the bottom edge. This plate is seed 1446647093 in the Kyrenia Blue palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After Standing Water

It was not made for you, or for anyone, or on purpose.