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Model of a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 3649880299Forty-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 3649880299 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

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AC-1761

Model of a Held Breath

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No author. Drawn by the strata system from seed 3649880299.

Medium
Generative plate, deterministic SVG rendered from a 32-bit seed
Dimensions
800 × 800 units, resolution-independent
System
strata
Palette
Buffer Grey
Seed
3649880299
Added
12 October 2026
Rights
© 2026 artcyp.com

Forty-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 3649880299 in the Buffer Grey palette.

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Approach to the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 3666809705Streamlines 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 3666809705 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the Slow Channel

AC-1435 · flow · Buffer Grey

It finished in the time it took to ask for this page.

Model of the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 4230524494Forty-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 4230524494 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of the August Reservoir

AC-1086 · strata · Levantine Light

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

After an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 1420703174Forty-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 1420703174 in the Akamas Thyme palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After an Empty Frequency

AC-1791 · strata · Akamas Thyme

This is the only version. There were never any others.