digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

Today, 83 works. By Saturday, 14 November, 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.

True Basin on the Gathering — 28 diatoms — True Basin on the Gathering

28 diatoms settle across the surface in no order but their own. Each carries its own colour; the bright violet ground holds them together.

Saturday, 31 Oct

83 works so far 4,984 shapes

Hung today, 31 October · leaves the wall on 14 November.

The Blaze out Shining Aerating — Houndstooth, 26 elements — The Blaze out Shining Aerating

The Alcove alongside Sure Closing — 150 octopuses — The Alcove alongside Sure Closing

What the Bay till Ponderous Curing — 54 snowflakes — What the Bay till Ponderous Curing

What the Rooted Brook across Knitting — 70 curves — What the Rooted Brook across Knitting

Tawny Basin Around Changing — 64 triangles — Tawny Basin Around Changing

When Forthright Cape Since Stirring — Yagasane, 75 elements — When Forthright Cape Since Stirring

When the Glad Candle amid Burgeoning — 6 staves — When the Glad Candle amid Burgeoning

The Sober Bog in the Arching — 4 molas — The Sober Bog in the Arching

Composed Acre along the Bordering — 3 windmills — Composed Acre along the Bordering

What the Amber Bay amid Flowing — Kumiko, 25 elements — What the Amber Bay amid Flowing

What the Centered Arch down Keeping — 22 feathers — What the Centered Arch down Keeping

Matronly Basin opposite the Dwelling — 84 five-point stars — Matronly Basin opposite the Dwelling

When Lean Bluff for Girding — 111 arcs — When Lean Bluff for Girding

The Bloom on Phosphorescent Twinkling — 81 Apollonian gaskets — The Bloom on Phosphorescent Twinkling

Embittered Brine after Stalling — Lissajous, 25 elements — Embittered Brine after Stalling

The Alcove via Mindful Grading — 50 sundials — The Alcove via Mindful Grading

When Firm Bluff through Abiding — Kikkō, 25 elements — When Firm Bluff through Abiding

The Basin under Mossy Ripening — 48 tornadoes — The Basin under Mossy Ripening

Wild Bluff under Drifting — Tachiwaku, 5 elements — Wild Bluff under Drifting

The Canyon before Cultivated Casting — 113 nephroids — The Canyon before Cultivated Casting

When the Distant Brook betwixt Forging — 115 orreries — When the Distant Brook betwixt Forging

When the Distant Brook with Calming — 22 squares — When the Distant Brook with Calming

What the Cool Candle among Lifting — 105 paths — What the Cool Candle among Lifting

Diamantine Beam with Lilting — 25 harmonographs — Diamantine Beam with Lilting

Plain Atoll Against the Flowing — 44 dodecagons — Plain Atoll Against the Flowing

When the Shrouded Carbon off Yielding — 25 hatchings — When the Shrouded Carbon off Yielding

The Sedate Arch near Toiling — 85 hippopedes — The Sedate Arch near Toiling

The Firm Bog under Girding — 42 zigzags — The Firm Bog under Girding

The Bluff of Durable till Calming — 145 limaçons — The Bluff of Durable till Calming

The Self-possessed Basin onto the Weighing — Ogham, 28 elements — The Self-possessed Basin onto the Weighing

The Cave before Tired Yielding — 138 circles — The Cave before Tired Yielding

When Patient Bluff beside Holding — 10 protractors and rulers — When Patient Bluff beside Holding

The Sienna Arch under Staying — 133 dandelions — The Sienna Arch under Staying

The Old-fashioned Acre up Anchoring — 4 leaves — The Old-fashioned Acre up Anchoring

Sustained Basin amid Circling — 18 corals — Sustained Basin amid Circling

The Measured Bog along Continuing — 146 springs — The Measured Bog along Continuing

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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