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Study for a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 929816302Nine centres, each emitting 34 closed rings whose radius grows as the 0.7 power of the ring index, so the spacing tightens as they widen. Each ring is a thirty-segment polygon pushed off true by a sinusoid whose amplitude grows with the index, and both stroke weight and opacity fall away as the rings get larger. This plate is seed 929816302 in the Akamas Thyme palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

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AC-1434

Study for a Dry Cistern

It was not composed so much as permitted. Looking longer will not change it, though it may change you.

No author. Drawn by the bloom system from seed 929816302.

Medium
Generative plate, deterministic SVG rendered from a 32-bit seed
Dimensions
800 × 800 units, resolution-independent
System
bloom
Palette
Akamas Thyme
Seed
929816302
Added
20 September 2026
Rights
© 2026 artcyp.com

Nine centres, each emitting 34 closed rings whose radius grows as the 0.7 power of the ring index, so the spacing tightens as they widen. Each ring is a thirty-segment polygon pushed off true by a sinusoid whose amplitude grows with the index, and both stroke weight and opacity fall away as the rings get larger. This plate is seed 929816302 in the Akamas Thyme palette.

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Same palette, same system

Late Carob, generative plate from seed 987625059Nine centres, each emitting 34 closed rings whose radius grows as the 0.7 power of the ring index, so the spacing tightens as they widen. Each ring is a thirty-segment polygon pushed off true by a sinusoid whose amplitude grows with the index, and both stroke weight and opacity fall away as the rings get larger. This plate is seed 987625059 in the Akamas Thyme palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Carob

AC-1654 · bloom · Akamas Thyme

It was not stored. It was recomputed, just now, for you.

Second Carob, generative plate from seed 1029929436Nine centres, each emitting 34 closed rings whose radius grows as the 0.7 power of the ring index, so the spacing tightens as they widen. Each ring is a thirty-segment polygon pushed off true by a sinusoid whose amplitude grows with the index, and both stroke weight and opacity fall away as the rings get larger. This plate is seed 1029929436 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Carob

AC-1554 · bloom · Salt Lake

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

Untitled (an Empty Frequency), generative plate from seed 310378302Nine centres, each emitting 34 closed rings whose radius grows as the 0.7 power of the ring index, so the spacing tightens as they widen. Each ring is a thirty-segment polygon pushed off true by a sinusoid whose amplitude grows with the index, and both stroke weight and opacity fall away as the rings get larger. This plate is seed 310378302 in the Kypros Copper palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (an Empty Frequency)

AC-1689 · bloom · Kypros Copper

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.