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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 109, page 1 of 3.

Crossing at Carob, generative plate from seed 1058729807One 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 1058729807 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Carob

AC-1918 · lattice · Levantine Light

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

Untitled (a Dropped Frame), generative plate from seed 1534149535Forty-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 1534149535 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (a Dropped Frame)

AC-1916 · strata · Levantine Light

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

Crossing at Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 3610537888One 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 3610537888 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Skouriotissa

AC-1903 · lattice · Levantine Light

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

Study for Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 3194953395Streamlines 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 3194953395 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Six Terraces

AC-1890 · flow · Levantine Light

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

Study for the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 4142548460Forty-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 4142548460 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for the Salt Crust

AC-1881 · strata · Levantine Light

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

Survey of an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 755425312Nine 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 755425312 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of an Empty Frequency

AC-1879 · bloom · Levantine Light

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

Evidence of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 1045168643One 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 1045168643 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Two Registrations

AC-1873 · lattice · Levantine Light

The rule does not know it has finished.

Notes on Carob, generative plate from seed 2116082187Nine 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 2116082187 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Carob

AC-1869 · bloom · Levantine Light

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

Notes on Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 3789523655Three 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 3789523655 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Two Registrations

AC-1862 · moire · Levantine Light

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Crossing at the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 1423885140Three 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 1423885140 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the Ledra Line

AC-1852 · moire · Levantine Light

The parts do not know about each other.

Crossing at Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 1478978297Nine 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 1478978297 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Six Terraces

AC-1839 · bloom · Levantine Light

No file of this exists anywhere, including here.

Reading of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 4081546693Nine 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 4081546693 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Two Registrations

AC-1834 · bloom · Levantine Light

It is younger than the page it is printed on.

Late Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 3042975491One 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 3042975491 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Skouriotissa

AC-1798 · lattice · Levantine Light

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

Untitled (Copper Spoil), generative plate from seed 2521909626One 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 2521909626 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Copper Spoil)

AC-1793 · lattice · Levantine Light

The parts do not know about each other.

Untitled (an Empty Frequency), generative plate from seed 3208949442Nine 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 3208949442 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (an Empty Frequency)

AC-1779 · bloom · Levantine Light

This took no afternoon.

Crossing at a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 2646935980One 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 2646935980 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at a Dropped Frame

AC-1763 · lattice · Levantine Light

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

Provisional the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 1422567521Streamlines 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 1422567521 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the Venetian Wall

AC-1760 · flow · Levantine Light

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

After the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 1033433788One 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 1033433788 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Ledra Line

AC-1758 · lattice · Levantine Light

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.

Reading of the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 3191401806Three 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 3191401806 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Slow Channel

AC-1757 · moire · Levantine Light

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Evidence of the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 3636704982Nine 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 3636704982 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Slow Channel

AC-1749 · bloom · Levantine Light

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

Crossing at the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 820994446Forty-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 820994446 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at the August Reservoir

AC-1746 · strata · Levantine Light

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

Approach to the Green Line, generative plate from seed 1105610231Streamlines 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 1105610231 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the Green Line

AC-1740 · flow · Levantine Light

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

Provisional Standing Water, generative plate from seed 1706499026One 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 1706499026 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Standing Water

AC-1738 · lattice · Levantine Light

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Reading of the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 1693896051One 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 1693896051 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Ninth Hour

AC-1733 · lattice · Levantine Light

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

Study for a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 3031195512Forty-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 3031195512 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for a Dry Cistern

AC-1726 · strata · Levantine Light

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Notes on Standing Water, generative plate from seed 3853830589Nine 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 3853830589 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Standing Water

AC-1724 · bloom · Levantine Light

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Approach to the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 2358669978Nine 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 2358669978 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the Ninth Hour

AC-1714 · bloom · Levantine Light

The parts do not know about each other.

Provisional the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 166270825Streamlines 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 166270825 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the August Reservoir

AC-1685 · flow · Levantine Light

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Study for Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 347239584Three 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 347239584 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Rain on Limestone

AC-1677 · moire · Levantine Light

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

Model of Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 1041736069Three 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 1041736069 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Rain on Limestone

AC-1667 · moire · Levantine Light

It is younger than the page it is printed on.

Approach to the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 789070409One 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 789070409 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the Salt Crust

AC-1658 · lattice · Levantine Light

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

Untitled (Carob), generative plate from seed 4047567425Three 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 4047567425 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Carob)

AC-1652 · moire · Levantine Light

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

Evidence of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 1913243131Forty-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 1913243131 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Copper Spoil

AC-1651 · strata · Levantine Light

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Survey of Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 1530474895Forty-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 1530474895 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Copper Spoil

AC-1641 · strata · Levantine Light

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

Late Varosha, generative plate from seed 4016269863Forty-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 4016269863 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Varosha

AC-1631 · strata · Levantine Light

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Untitled (the Green Line), generative plate from seed 3068815842Nine 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 3068815842 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Green Line)

AC-1629 · bloom · Levantine Light

This took no afternoon.

Notes on the Venetian Wall, generative plate from seed 4077233400Streamlines 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 4077233400 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on the Venetian Wall

AC-1620 · flow · Levantine Light

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

Study for an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 1877188468Nine 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 1877188468 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for an Empty Frequency

AC-1609 · bloom · Levantine Light

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

Evidence of Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 1158761960Nine 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 1158761960 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Skouriotissa

AC-1599 · bloom · Levantine Light

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

Untitled (Varosha), generative plate from seed 1882517830Streamlines 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 1882517830 in the Levantine Light palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Varosha)

AC-1580 · flow · Levantine Light

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