digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

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

81 elements of hexagrid fill the ground so densely that the eye starts looking for gaps. Each carries its own colour; the warm brown 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

45 works so far 3,553 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

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

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

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

What the Blossom into Delicate Perfuming — 106 six-point stars — What the Blossom into Delicate Perfuming

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

The Cavern beyond Tenebrous Sundering — 150 five-point stars — The Cavern beyond Tenebrous Sundering

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

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

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

What the Bluff down Loamy Spinning — 70 stripes — What the Bluff down Loamy Spinning

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

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

When Earthen Canyon out Passing — 113 parallelograms — When Earthen Canyon out Passing

When the Solemn-warm Arch within Remaining — 86 hexagons — When the Solemn-warm Arch within Remaining

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

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

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

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

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

The Untroubled Arch nearby Tracing — 16 squares — The Untroubled Arch nearby Tracing

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

See all 45 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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