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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-1921 is due. 22 Oct, 22:00 UTC

The catalogue is holding 921 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 37 of 117, page 3 of 3.

Survey of the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 2835933723One 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 2835933723 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of the Ledra Line

AC-1303 · lattice · Buffer Grey

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

Crossing at the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 2655187272Three 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 2655187272 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Ledra Line

AC-1302 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

Crossing at the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 3081352918Streamlines 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 3081352918 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Venetian Wall

AC-1290 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Provisional a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 108253247Streamlines 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 108253247 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional a Dropped Frame

AC-1280 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Evidence of Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 1081948314Forty-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 1081948314 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Six Terraces

AC-1266 · strata · Buffer Grey

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Notes on Standing Water, generative plate from seed 2362456504Three 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 2362456504 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Standing Water

AC-1262 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

Second the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 2601065166One 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 2601065166 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Ledra Line

AC-1253 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The rule does not know it has finished.

Model of the Green Line, generative plate from seed 1714325377Streamlines 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 1714325377 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of the Green Line

AC-1235 · flow · Buffer Grey

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.

Late Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 2384108010Streamlines 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 2384108010 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Two Registrations

AC-1230 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Late the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 1804571138Nine 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 1804571138 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late the August Reservoir

AC-1219 · bloom · Buffer Grey

No file of this exists anywhere, including here.

Model of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 278718734One 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 278718734 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of a Dry Cistern

AC-1218 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Second Carob, generative plate from seed 483621276Three 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 483621276 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Carob

AC-1217 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

After the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 3592521520Forty-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 3592521520 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Slow Channel

AC-1211 · strata · Buffer Grey

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

Survey of the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 2348446236Streamlines 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 2348446236 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of the Venetian Wall

AC-1210 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Notes on the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 1419469531Streamlines 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 1419469531 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on the Slow Channel

AC-1195 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Provisional the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 79022020Nine 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 79022020 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the Ledra Line

AC-1174 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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

Approach to Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 105230285One 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 105230285 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to Copper Spoil

AC-1173 · lattice · Buffer Grey

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

Crossing at Carob, generative plate from seed 3592803395Nine 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 3592803395 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Carob

AC-1169 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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

Crossing at the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 1061368221Three 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 1061368221 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Salt Crust

AC-1162 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

Approach to Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 2859599405Nine 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 2859599405 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to Copper Spoil

AC-1159 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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

After the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 2532835248Three 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 2532835248 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Salt Crust

AC-1157 · moire · Buffer Grey

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Survey of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 12507852Forty-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 12507852 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Copper Spoil

AC-1156 · strata · Buffer Grey

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

After the Green Line, generative plate from seed 3858097160Streamlines 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 3858097160 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Green Line

AC-1140 · flow · Buffer Grey

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

Study for the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 3792375678Forty-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 3792375678 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for the Slow Channel

AC-1136 · strata · Buffer Grey

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

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.

Untitled (the Salt Crust), generative plate from seed 74611619Three 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 74611619 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Salt Crust)

AC-1132 · moire · Buffer Grey

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Untitled (Copper Spoil), generative plate from seed 2833972697One 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 2833972697 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Copper Spoil)

AC-1103 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Study for Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 1025171318Nine 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 1025171318 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Skouriotissa

AC-1089 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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

Provisional Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 956605293Forty-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 956605293 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Two Registrations

AC-1066 · strata · Buffer Grey

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

Second a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 1080669049Three 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 1080669049 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second a Held Breath

AC-1062 · moire · Buffer Grey

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Crossing at Akamas, generative plate from seed 1168521727Forty-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 1168521727 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Akamas

AC-1061 · strata · Buffer Grey

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Late the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 3966489593Nine 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 3966489593 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late the August Reservoir

AC-1049 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The rule is shorter than this sentence collection.

Evidence of the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 2919223183Forty-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 2919223183 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Slow Channel

AC-1036 · strata · Buffer Grey

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

Crossing at a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 1739452319Nine 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 1739452319 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at a Held Breath

AC-1029 · bloom · Buffer Grey

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Crossing at the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 619467694Three 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 619467694 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Ninth Hour

AC-1022 · moire · Buffer Grey

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

Reading of the Green Line, generative plate from seed 957968586One 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 957968586 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Green Line

AC-1013 · lattice · Buffer Grey

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Model of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 312855157Nine 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 312855157 in the Buffer Grey palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Copper Spoil

AC-1004 · bloom · Buffer Grey

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