Free tool
Coffee cup reading
Photograph the inside of your cup. Every deposit is measured where it actually sits — how large it is, how far from the centre, which way it runs — and read against the symbols this tradition has used for a very long time.
Photograph the inside of the cup from directly above, with the handle at the bottom, and let the cup fill the circle.
Your photograph is read on your own device and is never uploaded.
Before you photograph it
- Turn the cup. Leave a little sediment, cover it with the saucer, turn it over, and wait until the cup is cool to the touch. Reading it warm smears the shapes.
- Handle at the bottom. In this tradition the handle is you — your side of the cup, your house, what is already in your hands. The half away from it is other people and elsewhere. That is the only thing the tool cannot work out for itself.
- Daylight, from the side. Not a flash, and not with your own shadow across the cup. The whole reading depends on telling grounds from porcelain.
- Straight down. Fill the circle with the cup, looking into it rather than across it.
How the cup is divided
Three rings, and the tool draws them over your photograph so you can see where each shape fell.
- The rim — the days just ahead
- What is closest at hand, and what arrives soonest.
- The middle — the coming weeks
- What is forming: still open, still yours to shape.
- The base — what lies underneath
- The long things. What settled at the bottom settled a while ago.
What this tool does, exactly
It measures. Your photograph is converted to a single channel by luminance, split into grounds and porcelain by Otsu's method, and every connected deposit inside the circle is found and measured — its area, its position, how elongated it is and which way its long axis points. Those numbers are facts about your photograph, and the same picture always produces the same ones.
The meanings are a tradition, not a result, and the tool says which is which: every passage shows what was measured underneath what it means. If your cup is too dark, too pale or nearly empty, it tells you that and how to fix the photograph rather than inventing a reading for it.
Nothing is uploaded. There is no account, no server and no storage — the photograph is read on your own device, and closing this page is the whole delete flow.
A cup is a prompt. A reading is a conversation.
This tool can tell you what shape your cup made and what that shape has long been taken to mean. It cannot ask you what has been happening, or notice that the same symbol turned up in your cup last month. In a private reading Fardous Nashaat works with your actual question — which is usually where the answer is.
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