digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

The Cairn unto Parched Sundering — 127 superellipses — The Cairn unto Parched Sundering

127 superellipses press together into a single, restless field. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a deep brown ground.

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

49 works so far 3,932 shapes

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

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

What the Basin underneath Settled Winding — 106 seven-point stars — What the Basin underneath Settled Winding

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

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

When Melancholy Carbon circa Writhing — 111 crescents — When Melancholy Carbon circa Writhing

Thick Basin Around the Fashioning — 22 diamonds — Thick Basin Around the Fashioning

What the Bog down Slow Drawing — 37 hendecagons — What the Bog down Slow Drawing

What Lingering Bay along Returning — 32 spirals — What Lingering Bay along Returning

The Bluff within Balanced Dwelling — 91 grids — The Bluff within Balanced Dwelling

What the Atoll on Muted-gold Curving — 121 zigzags — What the Atoll on Muted-gold Curving

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

What Warm Basin despite Bending — 148 lines — What Warm Basin despite Bending

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

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

Deadened Bedrock betwixt the Festering — 37 paths — Deadened Bedrock betwixt the Festering

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

Fertile Brook circa the Growing — 36 polylines — Fertile Brook circa the Growing

Grieving Carbon nearby Trembling — 146 rectangles — Grieving Carbon nearby Trembling

The Intact Atoll outside Changing — 13 circles — The Intact Atoll outside Changing

The Buoyant Aurora in Sparkling — 56 triangles — The Buoyant Aurora in Sparkling

What the Rough Canyon over Rolling — 18 rhombuses — What the Rough Canyon over Rolling

See all 49 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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