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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 111, page 1 of 3.

Untitled (the Venetian Wall), generative plate from seed 2786819329Nine 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 2786819329 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Venetian Wall)

AC-1919 · bloom · Salt Lake

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

Survey of Varosha, generative plate from seed 128517045One 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 128517045 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Varosha

AC-1898 · lattice · Salt Lake

The rule does not know it has finished.

Late Standing Water, generative plate from seed 3346168466Three 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 3346168466 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Standing Water

AC-1877 · moire · Salt Lake

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.

Second Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 520894601Forty-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 520894601 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Skouriotissa

AC-1851 · strata · Salt Lake

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

Reading of Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 3432282623Three 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 3432282623 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Rain on Limestone

AC-1837 · moire · Salt Lake

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

Crossing at a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 3504659758Forty-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 3504659758 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at a Dry Cistern

AC-1831 · strata · Salt Lake

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

Untitled (Standing Water), generative plate from seed 3252035810Nine 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 3252035810 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Standing Water)

AC-1804 · bloom · Salt Lake

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Crossing at Carob, generative plate from seed 3941076553Streamlines 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 3941076553 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Carob

AC-1800 · flow · Salt Lake

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Evidence of the Salt Crust, generative plate from seed 4244211296Nine 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 4244211296 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Salt Crust

AC-1799 · bloom · Salt Lake

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

Survey of Akamas, generative plate from seed 1511806071Streamlines 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 1511806071 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of Akamas

AC-1795 · flow · Salt Lake

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

Reading of the Green Line, generative plate from seed 3695984238One 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 3695984238 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Green Line

AC-1783 · lattice · Salt Lake

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

Untitled (the Ledra Line), generative plate from seed 584965027Streamlines 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 584965027 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Ledra Line)

AC-1780 · flow · Salt Lake

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Second the Green Line, generative plate from seed 675695790Three 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 675695790 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Green Line

AC-1777 · moire · Salt Lake

Nothing here was decided twice.

Provisional Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 3145751461Three 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 3145751461 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Two Registrations

AC-1772 · moire · Salt Lake

It is younger than the page it is printed on.

Study for the Green Line, generative plate from seed 1190430444Forty-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 1190430444 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for the Green Line

AC-1706 · strata · Salt Lake

The parts do not know about each other.

Second Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 786285319Forty-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 786285319 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Copper Spoil

AC-1691 · strata · Salt Lake

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

Survey of an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 967999082Nine 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 967999082 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of an Empty Frequency

AC-1684 · bloom · Salt Lake

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

Second Carob, generative plate from seed 736947645One 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 736947645 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Carob

AC-1678 · lattice · Salt Lake

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Second the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 446662930One 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 446662930 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the Slow Channel

AC-1653 · lattice · Salt Lake

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

Study for a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 1389639072Streamlines 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 1389639072 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for a Dry Cistern

AC-1645 · flow · Salt Lake

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Second Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 1575983343Nine 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 1575983343 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Two Registrations

AC-1644 · bloom · Salt Lake

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

After Akamas, generative plate from seed 1854480987Streamlines 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 1854480987 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After Akamas

AC-1635 · flow · Salt Lake

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

Untitled (a Dry Cistern), generative plate from seed 2407214508Nine 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 2407214508 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (a Dry Cistern)

AC-1634 · bloom · Salt Lake

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Provisional Akamas, generative plate from seed 1825318229Nine 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 1825318229 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Akamas

AC-1624 · bloom · Salt Lake

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

Crossing at Varosha, generative plate from seed 306919788Three 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 306919788 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Varosha

AC-1622 · moire · Salt Lake

Nothing here was decided twice.

Reading of the Ledra Line, generative plate from seed 2565739887Nine 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 2565739887 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Ledra Line

AC-1619 · bloom · Salt Lake

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Evidence of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 331504402One 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 331504402 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of a Dry Cistern

AC-1618 · lattice · Salt Lake

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Evidence of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 3451020795Three 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 3451020795 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of a Dry Cistern

AC-1617 · moire · Salt Lake

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Untitled (the Slow Channel), generative plate from seed 470850905Nine 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 470850905 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Slow Channel)

AC-1614 · bloom · Salt Lake

The parts do not know about each other.

After Copper Spoil, generative plate from seed 2227514840Three 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 2227514840 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After Copper Spoil

AC-1612 · moire · Salt Lake

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Second Akamas, generative plate from seed 3024575139Nine 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 3024575139 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Akamas

AC-1604 · bloom · Salt Lake

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

Provisional Varosha, generative plate from seed 1083067559Nine 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 1083067559 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional Varosha

AC-1594 · bloom · Salt Lake

The system has no preferences. It has parameters.

Notes on Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 750961718Streamlines 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 750961718 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Rain on Limestone

AC-1585 · flow · Salt Lake

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

Model of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 2890212980Three 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 2890212980 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Two Registrations

AC-1582 · moire · Salt Lake

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

Evidence of the Green Line, generative plate from seed 3912980065One 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 3912980065 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the Green Line

AC-1578 · lattice · Salt Lake

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

Late a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 1199598172Forty-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 1199598172 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late a Dropped Frame

AC-1571 · strata · Salt Lake

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

Model of a Held Breath, generative plate from seed 4017731124Nine 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 4017731124 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of a Held Breath

AC-1564 · bloom · Salt Lake

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Provisional a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 1846415889Forty-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 1846415889 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional a Dropped Frame

AC-1556 · strata · Salt Lake

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

After the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 3681324368Streamlines 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 3681324368 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After the Ninth Hour

AC-1555 · flow · Salt Lake

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.

Second Carob, generative plate from seed 1029929436Nine 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 1029929436 in the Salt Lake palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Carob

AC-1554 · bloom · Salt Lake

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