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Something new on the wall every day

The Arch of Changeless opposite Guarding — 118 network graphs

The Arch of Changeless opposite Guarding

118 network graphs crowd the field until single lines turn into texture. Against the bright green ground, no two of them share a colour.

Each piece is generated once, straight from a formula, and never remade. The lines land wherever the math puts them; the colour falls where chance decides. Nothing on this wall is a print or a copy. What hangs here now will be gone before you think to look again, and something that has never existed will take its place.

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180 works 12,169 shapes

Hung 11 October · leaves the wall on 18 October.

The Humble Border During Closing — 63 five-point stars

The Humble Border During Closing

The Blossom outside Idyllic Cresting — 100 rose curves

The Blossom outside Idyllic Cresting

The Acre beyond Changeless Lasting — 118 curves

The Acre beyond Changeless Lasting

Intrinsic Acre with Rooting — Yagasane, 25 elements

Intrinsic Acre with Rooting

When Lukewarm Acre despite Reaching — 19 hyperbolic tilings

When Lukewarm Acre despite Reaching

What the Alabaster outside Rapturous Illuminating — 56 squares

What the Alabaster outside Rapturous Illuminating

The Border between Ample Leaning — 46 stripes

The Border between Ample Leaning

The Bloom of Airborne among Fluttering — 25 Vicsek fractals

The Bloom of Airborne among Fluttering

The Blaze opposite White Sailing — 124 nephroids

The Blaze opposite White Sailing

What the Sunken Carbon Since Sickening — 132 pentagons

What the Sunken Carbon Since Sickening

The Brine atop Nightbound Yielding — 124 L-System trees

The Brine atop Nightbound Yielding

When Thick Basin via Knitting — 75 arabesques

When Thick Basin via Knitting

Sparkly Blaze before Dispersing — 100 Barnsley ferns

Sparkly Blaze before Dispersing

Diaphanous Alabaster across the Elevating — 8 astroids

Diaphanous Alabaster across the Elevating

The Bay down Clay-rolled Cycling — 147 lemniscates

The Bay down Clay-rolled Cycling

The Alabaster among Aglitter Flickering — 86 trochoids

The Alabaster among Aglitter Flickering

The Sagacious Bay through the Climbing — 75 conic sections

The Sagacious Bay through the Climbing

The Alcove upon Furrowed Bordering — 50 Hilbert curves

The Alcove upon Furrowed Bordering

Sundrenched Aura for the Delighting — 117 Fermat spirals

Sundrenched Aura for the Delighting

The Decayed Boulder outside the Hollowing — 75 hatchings

The Decayed Boulder outside the Hollowing

Lean Brook till Spreading — Phyllotaxis, 85 elements

Lean Brook till Spreading

What the Cultivated Cape nearby Seasoning — Hexagrid, 75 elements

What the Cultivated Cape nearby Seasoning

When the Sober Bluff across Distilling — 115 superellipses

When the Sober Bluff across Distilling

When Lean Border past Working — 124 rounded rectangles

When Lean Border past Working

See all 180 works in this room

One line. One moment. Never again.

Every work on this wall comes out of code and chance. Nothing is traced from a template, and no filter is laid over it afterwards. An algorithm takes a new random start for every picture and lets the uncertainty do the rest.

The works are made live through the day, one every few minutes, from carefully balanced parameters. Shapes unfold, colours shift and lines cross in ways nobody can predict, and nobody can repeat them either. The rules are strict and the outcome is open, which is why some pictures look as if they had chosen their own path.

Nothing is edited and nothing is made twice. Each picture is what one run of the program produced, and it exists in that one version only. That makes every piece here one of a kind, a fingerprint left by the code: precise and random at the same time, and not made to last.

Whether you collect, make things yourself or just like rhythm in a picture, stop here for a moment. What you find will be gone soon, and nothing quite like it will come back.

Each work is made once and never copied. Go and find yours.

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This work is a single moment, held in lines and colour. Chance decided where every line fell and which colour it took, and it will not decide the same way twice. There is no other version of this picture, and there never will be.

Free to use, even commercially — please credit digitallineart.com (CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)).

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