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Approach to a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 2218816110Three 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 2218816110 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

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AC-1927

Approach to a Dry Cistern

This took no afternoon. Looking longer will not change it, though it may change you.

No author. Drawn by the moire system from seed 2218816110.

Medium
Generative plate, deterministic SVG rendered from a 32-bit seed
Dimensions
800 × 800 units, resolution-independent
System
moire
Palette
Buffer Grey
Seed
2218816110
Added
23 October 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 2218816110 in the Buffer Grey palette.

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

Same palette, same system

Study for a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 1898914579Three 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 1898914579 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for a Held Breath

AC-1107 · moire · Troodos Pine

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Evidence of Standing Water, generative plate from seed 215306958Forty-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 215306958 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Standing Water

AC-1886 · strata · Buffer Grey

It arrived complete, which is not the same as arriving resolved.

Crossing at Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 1231931421Nine 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 1231931421 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Six Terraces

AC-1134 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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