Cassini ECS-1 — Electrographic Creation Suite

01Philosophy

The operator is expected to adapt to the limitations of the instrument rather than configure the instrument to the preferences of the operator.

1000

× 500 Pixels. Fixed.

One canvas. One size. No resizing, no rotation, no negotiation. Every mark is a commitment to the frame.

Colours per palette

No colour picker. No hex input. Choose from curated palettes or generate new ones from what you have.

Undo state

Take back your last stroke. That's it. No history panel, no fifty-step undo. Think before you draw.

02Specification

A fixed-format electrographic instrument

The Cassini ECS-1 is designed for the production of digital artwork under constrained operating conditions. The constraints are not limitations to be overcome — they are the instrument itself.

Canvas	1000 × 500 px
Aspect Ratio	2 : 1
Colours	12 per palette
Built-in Palettes	16
Layers	None
Undo Depth	1
Memory Slots	3 per file
Export	PNG at 1×, 2×, or 4×
Input	Apple Pencil only
Platform	iPad

03Palette Directory

16 built-in palettes

Curated colour sets you can swap between at any time. Generate ephemeral palettes from any swatch. Record the ones you want to keep.

01Arafura

General-purpose full-spectrum. One of each principal hue at moderate saturation.

02Spindrift

Pastel full-spectrum. Soft and low-contrast at elevated lightness.

03Sherbrooke

Muted earth tones on warm parchment. Burnt sienna, ochre, olive, slate.

04Chukhung

High-saturation full-spectrum. All entries near maximum intensity. Vivid and confrontational.

05Poa Alpina

Alpine meadow. Mossy greens, sandstone, golden wheat, and a flash of alpine lake teal.

06La Caldera

Reds dark to light. Wine-reds, warm vermilion, cool crimson, pale salmon. Hue shifts across the range.

07Shenzhou

Blues dark to light. Midnight indigo through cobalt and steel-teal to pale sky.

08Altostratus

Ten grays, dark to light. Alternating warm and cool casts for tonal variety.

09Insolate

Golds dark to light. Deep bronze through pure gold to cream, with an olive-brown anchor.

10Daphnis 26

Saturated mixed-hue with irregular distribution. Higher contrast than Arafura.

11Hyperborea

Aurora borealis. Deep arctic night, aurora greens and violet, rose accent, pale ice, indigo.

12Kobresia

Twilight hour. Rich violet and orchid, dusk amber and gold, evening rose, charcoal blue.

13Antennaria

Graphic poster. Signal red, steel blue, burnt orange, olive, teal, brass. High contrast, punchy.

14Uva-Ursi

Forest floor. Wine berries, deep moss, lichen gold, terracotta bark, shadowed plum, pale sage.

15Endurium

Industrial retro. Rust and amber, oxidized steel, caution gold, patina green, brick red.

16Laika

Dark navies, muted purple, coral, amber, icy cyan. Illuminated instrumentation against a night sky.

04Effects

Six real-time pixel processors

Apply with precision via parameter controls, or hit Slap for random values and see what happens.

Kaleido

Symmetry tool. Mirrors canvas data along configurable axes.

Split

Channel split displacement. Chromatic aberration from offset colour channels.

Chippy

Combined edge detection, compression, and posterisation.

Gaussian

Blur tool. Gaussian convolution to soften pixel data.

Telematic

Pixel sorting and scanline effect with visible scan artefacts.

McMaster

Colour quantisation and dithering. Redistributes colour across the palette.

05Patterns

15 procedural fills

Deterministic pattern generators applied in the active foreground colour. Identical results on every application.

CHKCheckerboard

CDYCandy Stripes

SQRSquare Grid

SPISpiral

HILHilbert Curve

ZRYSierpinski Triangle

DOTDot Grid

HEXHexagonal Tiling

WVESine Waves

DSCDiamonds

CRSCross-Hatch

BRKBrick Wall

STRStarfield

DGDDiagonal Grid

MZEMaze