Something new on the wall every day

Today, 38 works. By next Friday, none of them.

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.

The Sedate Alcove toward the Curing — 23 isometric stairs

The Sedate Alcove toward the Curing

23 isometric stairs drift over the ground, some touching, most keeping their distance. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a muted teal ground.

Friday

38 works so far 2,674 shapes

Hung today, 23 October · leaves the wall on 30 October.

When the Fathomed Atoll alongside Continuing — 25 voderberg spirals

When the Fathomed Atoll alongside Continuing

The Canyon across Oaken Circling — 61 cross-stitch motifs

The Canyon across Oaken Circling

When Kindly Arch During Bending — 114 hippopedes

When Kindly Arch During Bending

When the Soft Arch beneath Leaning — 50 wireframe landscapes

When the Soft Arch beneath Leaning

When Intact Acre up Housing — 111 jansen linkages

When Intact Acre up Housing

Copper Bay beyond the Distilling — 7 rhombuses

Copper Bay beyond the Distilling

The Amber-toned Bluff near Embedding — 125 chrysanthemums

The Amber-toned Bluff near Embedding

What the Cape over Distant Leaning — 100 seven-segment digits

What the Cape over Distant Leaning

What Torn Brine upon Hounding — 28 deltoids

What Torn Brine upon Hounding

What Centered Brook Against Dwelling — Delaunay Triangulation, 25 elements

What Centered Brook Against Dwelling

What the Cave until Heavyhearted Receding — 72 star trails

What the Cave until Heavyhearted Receding

Rustic Acre atop the Bridging — 109 slide rules

Rustic Acre atop the Bridging

What the Durable Arch Around Changing — 18 Archimedean tilings

What the Durable Arch Around Changing

The Brilliance near Dawning Levitating — 23 interlocking circles

The Brilliance near Dawning Levitating

Sandy Bay after Reaching — 79 orreries

Sandy Bay after Reaching

The Arch of Unhurried within Stretching — 98 pseudospheres

The Arch of Unhurried within Stretching

When Blended Brook from Moving — 108 lichens

When Blended Brook from Moving

When Earthbound Acre amidst Cradling — 67 Dürer pentagons

When Earthbound Acre amidst Cradling

The Floating Alabaster among Emanating — 124 4d polytopes

The Floating Alabaster among Emanating

The Basin without Forthcoming Meeting — 138 pinwheel tiles

The Basin without Forthcoming Meeting

What the Arch beside Frugal Returning — 54 oscillograms

What the Arch beside Frugal Returning

The Burnished Basin until Housing — 119 paths

The Burnished Basin until Housing

The Acre of Dusky-gold across Spinning — 75 butterflies

The Acre of Dusky-gold across Spinning

The Scarred Boulder toward Parching — 75 strange attractors

The Scarred Boulder toward Parching

When Warm Alcove amid Steadying — 50 sphinx tilings

When Warm Alcove amid Steadying

When Grainy Basin onto Weighing — 21 Art Deco fans

When Grainy Basin onto Weighing

When Fluttering Blossom off Blazing — 140 hendecagons

When Fluttering Blossom off Blazing

When Lingering Atoll onto Buffering — 7 tower cranes

When Lingering Atoll onto Buffering

The Ponderous Canyon past the Grading — 118 squares

The Ponderous Canyon past the Grading

The Stable Border Inside Rolling — 107 beetles

The Stable Border Inside Rolling

Winsome Bloom beyond Cleansing — 21 Voronoi diagrams

Winsome Bloom beyond Cleansing

When Moribund Cave from Blighting — 123 metro maps

When Moribund Cave from Blighting

The Translucent Breath on Crystallizing — 24 astroids

The Translucent Breath on Crystallizing

Dire Cave over the Moldering — 87 truss bridges

Dire Cave over the Moldering

Strong Bluff outside Rounding — 42 rose curves

Strong Bluff outside Rounding

The Cherubic Brilliance During Polishing — Asanoha, 100 elements

The Cherubic Brilliance During Polishing

The Heartfelt Bay alongside Sowing — Bonsai, 6 elements

The Heartfelt Bay alongside Sowing

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.

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