digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

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

87 works so far 6,508 shapes

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

Stoic Border onto the Rolling — 57 contours — Stoic Border onto the Rolling

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

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

Brilliant Alabaster after the Cheering — 60 nephroids — Brilliant Alabaster after the Cheering

When Hardy Arch throughout Brewing — 63 trochoids — When Hardy Arch throughout Brewing

The Lasting Alcove past Spanning — 41 cardioids — The Lasting Alcove past Spanning

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

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

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

When the Austere Burial among Splintering — Girih, 75 elements — When the Austere Burial among Splintering

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

The Bay of Unshaken up Rolling — 40 gears — The Bay of Unshaken up Rolling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See all 87 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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