digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

Distant Basin into Girding — Phyllotaxis, 83 elements — Distant Basin into Girding

83 elements of phyllotaxis fill the ground so densely that the eye starts looking for gaps. Each carries its own colour; the bright ochre ground holds them together.

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.

Tuesday

56 works so far 4,426 shapes

Hung today, 13 October · leaves the wall on 20 October.

When the Stained Basin by Brewing — 150 nonagons — When the Stained Basin by Brewing

The Steely Bedrock During Quenching — Lissajous, 75 elements — The Steely Bedrock During Quenching

What the Border up Olive Lacing — 13 waves — What the Border up Olive Lacing

When Attentive Border under Rounding — Hexagrid, 81 elements — When Attentive Border under Rounding

What the Border across Warm-hued Stirring — 136 heptagons — What the Border across Warm-hued Stirring

Ripened Bluff on the Shaping — 32 leaves — Ripened Bluff on the Shaping

Kindly Canyon onto the Opening — 122 Truchet tiles — Kindly Canyon onto the Opening

What Soulless Boulder after Bleakening — 145 eight-point stars — What Soulless Boulder after Bleakening

The Alabaster of Dulcet alongside Gracing — Mesh, 91 elements — The Alabaster of Dulcet alongside Gracing

When Clarion Aura amid Breathing — 99 orbits — When Clarion Aura amid Breathing

The Basin amid Plain Carrying — Sunburst, 143 elements — The Basin amid Plain Carrying

Shrouded Brine toward the Stalling — 22 deltoids — Shrouded Brine toward the Stalling

The Wild Alcove Around Brewing — 75 decagons — The Wild Alcove Around Brewing

The Serene Bog over the Embedding — 42 ellipses — The Serene Bog over the Embedding

What the Steady Bluff from Steadying — 138 trapeziums — What the Steady Bluff from Steadying

When Thoughtful Arch from Weaving — 10 crosses — When Thoughtful Arch from Weaving

When Untroubled Canyon During Steadying — Vortex, 117 elements — When Untroubled Canyon During Steadying

When Slow Acre opposite Lining — 126 dodecagons — When Slow Acre opposite Lining

Grave-toned Basin throughout Housing — 59 octagons — Grave-toned Basin throughout Housing

What Lean Atoll amidst Cradling — 132 curves — What Lean Atoll amidst Cradling

The Burnished Bog among the Plowing — 42 arcs — The Burnished Bog among the Plowing

See all 56 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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