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Crossing at Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 2921943116Three 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 2921943116 in the Akamas Thyme palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

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AC-1507

Crossing at Copper Spoil

The order of the decisions is fixed. Only the looking is loose. Looking longer will not change it, though it may change you.

No author. Drawn by the moire system from seed 2921943116.

Medium
Generative plate, deterministic SVG rendered from a 32-bit seed
Dimensions
800 × 800 units, resolution-independent
System
moire
Palette
Akamas Thyme
Seed
2921943116
Added
25 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 2921943116 in the Akamas Thyme palette.

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

Same palette, same system

Crossing at Akamas, generative plate from seed 3039435499Three 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 3039435499 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Akamas

AC-1362 · moire · Salt Lake

Nothing here is a mistake, and nothing here was avoided.

Second the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 2857731099Streamlines 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 2857731099 in the Akamas Thyme palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Venetian Wall

AC-1885 · flow · Akamas Thyme

Every line had a reason, and none of the reasons was taste.

Notes on Akamas, generative plate from seed 199483387Three 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 199483387 in the Carob palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Akamas

AC-1462 · moire · Carob

It could have been drawn on paper in 1968 by somebody very patient.