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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 9 of 89, page 3 of 3.

Notes on Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 1435488665One 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 1435488665 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Copper Spoil

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

Survey of the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 316910426Nine 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 316910426 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of the Salt Crust

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

Crossing at Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 2967041957Streamlines 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 2967041957 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Six Terraces

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

Survey of Varosha, generative plate from seed 2639246240Streamlines 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 2639246240 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Varosha

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Model of Carob, generative plate from seed 3691842575Nine 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 3691842575 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Carob

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

After a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 183386908Forty-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 183386908 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After a Dry Cistern

This took no afternoon.

Model of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 2211400684Nine 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 2211400684 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Copper Spoil

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

Provisional Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 1486282752One 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 1486282752 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Six Terraces

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Provisional Akamas, generative plate from seed 2855729700Streamlines 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 2855729700 in the Mesaoria Ochre palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Akamas

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.