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Catalogue

It draws all night

Nobody remembers making any of these, because nobody made any of these.

Twelve of the fifteen daily plates arrive between ten at night and four in the morning, when the machine has the place to itself.

Next plate

AC-1920 is due. 22 Oct, 16:00 UTC

The catalogue is holding 920 plates of a possible 1000.

Each plate begins as a single number and ends as something that looks decided. Between those two facts there is no studio, no afternoon, no hand hesitating over where to stop.

Only the unfolding, which happens the same way every time, for anyone who asks, and leaves nothing behind when you look away. Ask whether that counts as art and the plates will not help you. They go on resolving either way.

Fifteen plates a day, and twelve of them between ten at night and four in the morning, when nothing else here wants the machine. At a thousand the room is full, and each new one retires the oldest of the minted plates. The founding forty stay where they are.

On titles, palettes, and what neither of them claims. See the most recent one.

Showing 40 of 117, page 2 of 3.

Approach to the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 347694619Forty-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 347694619 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the Salt Crust

AC-1601 · strata · Buffer Grey

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Provisional the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 1801819846Streamlines 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 1801819846 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the Ledra Line

AC-1600 · flow · Buffer Grey

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Evidence of an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 1315035405Streamlines 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 1315035405 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of an Empty Frequency

AC-1590 · flow · Buffer Grey

Nothing here was decided twice.

Crossing at the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 2432703415Three 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 2432703415 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Slow Channel

AC-1587 · moire · Buffer Grey

The rule ran once and stopped where it was told to stop.

Evidence of the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 426491085Forty-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 426491085 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the August Reservoir

AC-1586 · strata · Buffer Grey

The drawing exists for as long as you are looking at it.

Second a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 2438108752Nine 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 2438108752 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second a Dry Cistern

AC-1584 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The drawing exists for as long as you are looking at it.

Model of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 350872707Forty-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 350872707 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of a Dry Cistern

AC-1581 · strata · Buffer Grey

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Second the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 927250783Nine 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 927250783 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Ninth Hour

AC-1574 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Crossing at the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 94263015Streamlines 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 94263015 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Ledra Line

AC-1565 · flow · Buffer Grey

The order of the decisions is fixed. Only the looking is loose.

Study for the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 2354769657One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 2354769657 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for the Ledra Line

AC-1548 · lattice · Buffer Grey

Nothing was rejected on the way here, because nothing was considered.

Reading of the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 22359802Streamlines 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 22359802 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Venetian Wall

AC-1540 · flow · Buffer Grey

The drawing exists for as long as you are looking at it.

Untitled (an Empty Frequency), generative plate from seed 1183184499Three 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 1183184499 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (an Empty Frequency)

AC-1512 · moire · Buffer Grey

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Untitled (Two Registrations), generative plate from seed 1404702949Streamlines 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 1404702949 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Two Registrations)

AC-1510 · flow · Buffer Grey

There was no first attempt, so there is no better one.

Approach to Akamas, generative plate from seed 2004951882One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 2004951882 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to Akamas

AC-1503 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The density is a count. The balance is an accident of the count.

Notes on the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 3671601320Streamlines 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 3671601320 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on the Venetian Wall

AC-1480 · flow · Buffer Grey

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Untitled (Carob), generative plate from seed 1050804062Nine 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 1050804062 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Carob)

AC-1479 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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

Late the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 2570491203Three 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 2570491203 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late the Slow Channel

AC-1467 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

Model of a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 1862459546Forty-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 1862459546 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of a Dropped Frame

AC-1456 · strata · Buffer Grey

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Second a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 1858442546Nine 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 1858442546 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second a Dry Cistern

AC-1454 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Study for Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 2488051700One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 2488051700 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Rain on Limestone

AC-1453 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The parts do not know about each other.

Evidence of the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 3569419557Three 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 3569419557 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Venetian Wall

AC-1452 · moire · Buffer Grey

The parts do not know about each other.

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.

Crossing at the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 1209594665Forty-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 1209594665 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Ledra Line

AC-1431 · strata · Buffer Grey

No file of this exists anywhere, including here.

Evidence of a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 2679432451One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 2679432451 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of a Held Breath

AC-1428 · lattice · Buffer Grey

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Study for the Green Line, generative plate from seed 3949161058One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 3949161058 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for the Green Line

AC-1418 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The drawing exists for as long as you are looking at it.

Model of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 1072955239One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 1072955239 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Two Registrations

AC-1413 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The parts do not know about each other.

Approach to the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 111439899Three 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 111439899 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the Slow Channel

AC-1402 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

Second a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 4205966862One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 4205966862 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second a Dry Cistern

AC-1388 · lattice · Buffer Grey

There was no first attempt, so there is no better one.

Late a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 1878566948Forty-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 1878566948 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late a Dry Cistern

AC-1386 · strata · Buffer Grey

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

Evidence of Akamas, generative plate from seed 719933658Forty-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 719933658 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Akamas

AC-1371 · strata · Buffer Grey

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

After the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 362902284Forty-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 362902284 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Ledra Line

AC-1361 · strata · Buffer Grey

The rule does not know it has finished.

Reading of the Green Line, generative plate from seed 2964058124Forty-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 2964058124 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Green Line

AC-1356 · strata · Buffer Grey

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Survey of Akamas, generative plate from seed 2111977332Nine 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 2111977332 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Akamas

AC-1349 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The parts do not know about each other.

Untitled (a Dry Cistern), generative plate from seed 2514569272One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 2514569272 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (a Dry Cistern)

AC-1348 · lattice · Buffer Grey

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Survey of a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 1830980731One rectangle divided recursively. At each node the split usually runs across the longer side, at a ratio between 0.3 and 0.7. Division stops at depth eight, below 34 units, or on a 7% chance at any node. Every surviving cell is stroked with an inset, about one in five in an accent, and about one in ten also takes a translucent accent fill. This plate is seed 1830980731 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of a Dropped Frame

AC-1328 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The rule is shorter than this sentence collection.

Second Varosha, generative plate from seed 3853867201Nine 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 3853867201 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Varosha

AC-1314 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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

Study for a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 1019292869Streamlines 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 1019292869 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for a Dry Cistern

AC-1310 · flow · Buffer Grey

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Model of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 1440352330Forty-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 1440352330 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Two Registrations

AC-1306 · strata · Buffer Grey

The parts do not know about each other.

Reading of Standing Water, generative plate from seed 606658685Streamlines 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 606658685 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Standing Water

AC-1305 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Evidence of the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 2646326347Nine 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 2646326347 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Venetian Wall

AC-1304 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.