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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 1 of 3.

Notes on Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 56153542Three 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 56153542 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Skouriotissa

AC-1917 · moire · Troodos Pine

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.

Survey of a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 2609938247One 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 2609938247 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Survey of a Dry Cistern

AC-1913 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 660622688Nine 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 660622688 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on the August Reservoir

AC-1909 · bloom · Troodos Pine

The stopping point was arithmetic, not judgement.

Late the Ninth Hour, generative plate from seed 2955171677Three 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 2955171677 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late the Ninth Hour

AC-1907 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Untitled (Standing Water), generative plate from seed 2876096211One 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 2876096211 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Standing Water)

AC-1883 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

After Standing Water, generative plate from seed 4272767636Streamlines 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 4272767636 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After Standing Water

AC-1875 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on Carob, generative plate from seed 4162357229Streamlines 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 4162357229 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Carob

AC-1830 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on Varosha, generative plate from seed 3616259906Three 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 3616259906 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Varosha

AC-1827 · moire · Troodos Pine

This took no afternoon.

Notes on Rain on Limestone, generative plate from seed 2933549682Three 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 2933549682 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Rain on Limestone

AC-1817 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Untitled (Rain on Limestone), generative plate from seed 2466659690Forty-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 2466659690 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (Rain on Limestone)

AC-1811 · strata · Troodos Pine

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Provisional the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 3198505434One 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 3198505434 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the August Reservoir

AC-1808 · lattice · Troodos Pine

The same number will build it again tomorrow, exactly.

Reading of Varosha, generative plate from seed 1136209422Three 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 1136209422 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Varosha

AC-1802 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Study for Akamas, generative plate from seed 1137498874Three 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 1137498874 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Akamas

AC-1797 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Crossing at a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 3781180438Nine 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 3781180438 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at a Dropped Frame

AC-1794 · bloom · Troodos Pine

It was not composed so much as permitted.

Late Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 1632399245Nine 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 1632399245 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Two Registrations

AC-1769 · bloom · Troodos Pine

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

After Carob, generative plate from seed 1301168871Forty-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 1301168871 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After Carob

AC-1766 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Evidence of Carob, generative plate from seed 2621787557Streamlines 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 2621787557 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Carob

AC-1755 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Evidence of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 3475321579Three 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 3475321579 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of Two Registrations

AC-1752 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Second the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 3699298221Forty-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 3699298221 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second the August Reservoir

AC-1751 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Reading of Carob, generative plate from seed 3124442611Streamlines 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 3124442611 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Carob

AC-1750 · flow · Troodos Pine

No file of this exists anywhere, including here.

Crossing at Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 3263960917One 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 3263960917 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Skouriotissa

AC-1748 · lattice · Troodos Pine

No file of this exists anywhere, including here.

Study for Skouriotissa, generative plate from seed 3350576999One 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 3350576999 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for Skouriotissa

AC-1743 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

Approach to the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 2418093004Three 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 2418093004 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to the August Reservoir

AC-1722 · moire · Troodos Pine

The rule is shorter than this sentence collection.

Second Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 813158044One 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 813158044 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Second Six Terraces

AC-1718 · lattice · Troodos Pine

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Notes on Varosha, generative plate from seed 2177921523Streamlines 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 2177921523 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Varosha

AC-1710 · flow · Troodos Pine

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Evidence of the August Reservoir, generative plate from seed 1194873525Nine 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 1194873525 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Evidence of the August Reservoir

AC-1704 · bloom · Troodos Pine

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Model of Six Terraces, generative plate from seed 2237014352Forty-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 2237014352 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Model of Six Terraces

AC-1671 · strata · Troodos Pine

It is younger than the page it is printed on.

Study for an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 1693248830Streamlines 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 1693248830 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Study for an Empty Frequency

AC-1665 · flow · Troodos Pine

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Approach to a Dry Cistern, generative plate from seed 4059387270Streamlines 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 4059387270 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to a Dry Cistern

AC-1655 · flow · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on Standing Water, generative plate from seed 2024071679One 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 2024071679 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Standing Water

AC-1638 · lattice · Troodos Pine

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

Reading of an Empty Frequency, generative plate from seed 4122607171Forty-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 4122607171 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of an Empty Frequency

AC-1636 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Notes on Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 354868976Three 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 354868976 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Notes on Two Registrations

AC-1627 · moire · Troodos Pine

The parts do not know about each other.

Reading of Two Registrations, generative plate from seed 752408993Three 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 752408993 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of Two Registrations

AC-1597 · moire · Troodos Pine

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

Reading of the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 2783213293Nine 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 2783213293 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Reading of the Slow Channel

AC-1569 · bloom · Troodos Pine

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

Crossing at Varosha, generative plate from seed 2013139843One 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 2013139843 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Crossing at Varosha

AC-1568 · lattice · Troodos Pine

Nothing here was decided twice.

Approach to a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 90988227Forty-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 90988227 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Approach to a Dropped Frame

AC-1546 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

Late Varosha, generative plate from seed 3504236128Forty-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 3504236128 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Late Varosha

AC-1531 · strata · Troodos Pine

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

After a Dropped Frame, generative plate from seed 548877931One 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 548877931 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

After a Dropped Frame

AC-1518 · lattice · Troodos Pine

No hand hesitated over where to leave it.

Provisional the Slow Channel, generative plate from seed 3123923918Nine 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 3123923918 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Provisional the Slow Channel

AC-1514 · bloom · Troodos Pine

What looks like a choice is a threshold being crossed.

Untitled (the Venetian Wall), generative plate from seed 2475884155One 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 2475884155 in the Troodos Pine palette. © 2026 artcyp.com

Untitled (the Venetian Wall)

AC-1508 · lattice · Troodos Pine

It repeats without remembering that it is repeating.