digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

Today, 53 works. By Friday, 4 December, 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 Placid Border within the Waiting — Jellyfish, 122 elements — The Placid Border within the Waiting Jellyfish

Leaves 4 Dec

122 elements of jellyfish crowd the field until single lines turn into texture. Against the muted violet ground, no two of them share a colour.

Wednesday, 4 Nov

53 works so far 3,302 shapes

Hung today, 4 November · leaves the wall on 4 December.

When the Beatific Blaze Inside Illumining — 5 pseudospheres — When the Beatific Blaze Inside Illumining Pseudospheres

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The Beam of Aerial off Flourishing — 88 triquetras — The Beam of Aerial off Flourishing Triquetras

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The Sunless Carbon between Despairing — 29 springs — The Sunless Carbon between Despairing Springs

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Well-worn Brook for Reckoning — 24 dreamcatchers — Well-worn Brook for Reckoning Dreamcatchers

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When Earthen Alcove Since Plowing — 135 spidrons — When Earthen Alcove Since Plowing Spidrons

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The Husky Bay opposite Pacing — 32 circles — The Husky Bay opposite Pacing Circles

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Slow Basin of the Inscribing — 25 ndebele patterns — Slow Basin of the Inscribing Ndebele Patterns

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Shadowy Boulder up the Graying — Kamon, 112 elements — Shadowy Boulder up the Graying Kamon

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What the Late Basin until Carving — Zonohedra, 122 elements — What the Late Basin until Carving Zonohedra

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What the Atoll underneath Textured Gathering — 50 Chladni figures — What the Atoll underneath Textured Gathering Chladni Figures

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The Air past Carefree Dappling — 54 diatoms — The Air past Carefree Dappling Diatoms

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The Pragmatic Acre toward the Fastening — 8 parallelograms — The Pragmatic Acre toward the Fastening Parallelograms

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The Basin of Tilled amid Shaping — Xicalcoliuhqui, 33 elements — The Basin of Tilled amid Shaping Xicalcoliuhqui

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The Time-honored Basin before the Lasting — 117 eight-point stars — The Time-honored Basin before the Lasting Eight-Point Stars

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Calm Bluff betwixt the Melting — Blackwork, 60 elements — Calm Bluff betwixt the Melting Blackwork

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What the Atoll amidst Stocky Echoing — 67 molecules — What the Atoll amidst Stocky Echoing Molecules

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Dead Burial outside Failing — Yagasane, 25 elements — Dead Burial outside Failing Yagasane

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The Contemplative Basin for Sharing — 29 contours — The Contemplative Basin for Sharing Contours

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When the Ample Bog on Rolling — Lissajous, 25 elements — When the Ample Bog on Rolling Lissajous

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Calm Canyon beyond Arching — Shorthand, 75 elements — Calm Canyon beyond Arching Shorthand

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When the Trusty Canyon before Fording — Braille, 134 elements — When the Trusty Canyon before Fording Braille

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Soaring Blaze behind Quickening — 100 molas — Soaring Blaze behind Quickening Molas

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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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