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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 93, page 2 of 3.

Notes on the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 2131303938Forty-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 2131303938 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on the Ledra Line

AC-1501 · strata · Troodos Pine

The parts do not know about each other.

Crossing at Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 1910258363Streamlines 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 1910258363 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Copper Spoil

AC-1500 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Approach to Varosha, generative plate from seed 485229226Three 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 485229226 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to Varosha

AC-1497 · moire · Troodos Pine

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Late Standing Water, generative plate from seed 626183151Streamlines 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 626183151 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Standing Water

AC-1485 · flow · Troodos Pine

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Provisional Standing Water, generative plate from seed 3113133828Nine 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 3113133828 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Standing Water

AC-1484 · bloom · Troodos Pine

A number went in. This came out. There is no third thing.

Reading of Standing Water, generative plate from seed 161442616One 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 161442616 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Standing Water

AC-1478 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

Provisional the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 1194828269Streamlines 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 1194828269 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the Salt Crust

AC-1475 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 1074816500Streamlines 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 1074816500 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on a Dry Cistern

AC-1450 · flow · Troodos Pine

This took no afternoon.

Model of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 4091873825Three 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 4091873825 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of a Dry Cistern

AC-1442 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Provisional a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 2661288472Forty-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 2661288472 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional a Dry Cistern

AC-1436 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Second the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 571212305Nine 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 571212305 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Ledra Line

AC-1429 · bloom · Troodos Pine

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

Reading of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 2593088267Three 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 2593088267 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Copper Spoil

AC-1412 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Survey of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 3693340957Three 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 3693340957 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of a Dry Cistern

AC-1397 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Evidence of Varosha, generative plate from seed 118391609Nine 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 118391609 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Varosha

AC-1394 · bloom · Troodos Pine

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

Second Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 2182103514One 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 2182103514 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Two Registrations

AC-1393 · lattice · Troodos Pine

A rule with no opinion produced something that appears to hold one.

Crossing at Standing Water, generative plate from seed 1528655673One 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 1528655673 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Standing Water

AC-1383 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

Reading of Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 3491904384Three 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 3491904384 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Rain on Limestone

AC-1382 · moire · Troodos Pine

The rule does not know it has finished.

Reading of the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 34708444Nine 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 34708444 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Ninth Hour

AC-1354 · bloom · Troodos Pine

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Second the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 700026966Forty-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 700026966 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the August Reservoir

AC-1336 · strata · Troodos Pine

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Survey of an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 4006871897One 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 4006871897 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of an Empty Frequency

AC-1333 · lattice · Troodos Pine

A number went in. This came out. There is no third thing.

Crossing at Standing Water, generative plate from seed 3224119229Nine 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 3224119229 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Standing Water

AC-1329 · bloom · Troodos Pine

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

Crossing at Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 3589271884One 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 3589271884 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Skouriotissa

AC-1323 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 2682833740Three 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 2682833740 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Two Registrations

AC-1317 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Study for an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 1765166262Streamlines 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 1765166262 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for an Empty Frequency

AC-1315 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 1477853278Forty-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 1477853278 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Skouriotissa

AC-1311 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Late a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 1768778812One 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 1768778812 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late a Held Breath

AC-1298 · lattice · Troodos Pine

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Survey of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 216493056Streamlines 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 216493056 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Copper Spoil

AC-1295 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Evidence of the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 327875265Nine 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 327875265 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Ledra Line

AC-1294 · bloom · Troodos Pine

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

Survey of the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 4252180525Nine 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 4252180525 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of the Salt Crust

AC-1289 · bloom · Troodos Pine

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Approach to Carob, generative plate from seed 877060083Streamlines 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 877060083 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to Carob

AC-1275 · flow · Troodos Pine

The parts do not know about each other.

After a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 2689294554One 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 2689294554 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After a Dry Cistern

AC-1258 · lattice · Troodos Pine

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.

Approach to a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 4019012498Three 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 4019012498 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to a Dry Cistern

AC-1242 · moire · Troodos Pine

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Reading of the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 500508790Forty-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 500508790 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Slow Channel

AC-1241 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 1216767335Three 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 1216767335 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on the Slow Channel

AC-1227 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Untitled (the Green Line), generative plate from seed 1005564414Forty-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 1005564414 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Green Line)

AC-1221 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

After the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 2515388031Nine 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 2515388031 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Salt Crust

AC-1204 · bloom · Troodos Pine

The rule does not know it has finished.

Study for Standing Water, generative plate from seed 2243544961Three 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 2243544961 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Standing Water

AC-1197 · moire · Troodos Pine

Nothing here was decided twice.

Second the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 1883468609Three 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 1883468609 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Venetian Wall

AC-1182 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Untitled (the August Reservoir), generative plate from seed 1160210627Streamlines 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 1160210627 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the August Reservoir)

AC-1180 · flow · Troodos Pine

Nothing here was decided twice.

Provisional the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 761532746Three 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 761532746 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the August Reservoir

AC-1152 · moire · Troodos Pine

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