☕ Akashic Records
Akashic Records is a tasseographical inference engine by Transactions OnSystems. Upload a photograph of your Turkish coffee cup, and our system will analyze the grounds to surface symbols, patterns, and meanings hidden within.
Tasseography — the art of reading coffee grounds — is an ancient divination practice spanning centuries across Ottoman, Greek, and Middle Eastern traditions. The reader inverts a džezva-brewed cup, waits for the grounds to settle, then interprets the symbols formed along the cup’s interior. Akashic Records digitizes this ritual: our computer vision pipeline identifies candidate symbols, classifies their positions within the cup’s topography, and maps each finding to its traditional divinatory meaning.
The system offers three core capabilities: a findings report, a full fortune, and a reading history.
▶ Findings Report
Upload a cup image and receive a detailed breakdown of the symbols detected in the grounds, their positions (handle, front rim, center, bottom), and the traditional meanings associated with each.
▶ Full Fortune
Beyond individual findings, the system synthesizes a fortune narrative. It weaves the detected symbols, their positions, and their interrelationships into a cohesive divinatory interpretation — a personalized reading that goes beyond individual findings to tell a story about what the grounds reveal.
▶ Reading History
Every reading is saved and accessible through an interactive calendar. Revisit past fortunes, compare symbols across readings, and track how the grounds speak to you over time.