digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What the Equable Basin round Drawing — 99 paisleys — What the Equable Basin round Drawing

99 paisleys overlap again and again, building a weave no hand would have planned. Each carries its own colour; the stone-grey 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

205 works 13,174 shapes

Hung 13 October · leaves the wall on 20 October.

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

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

The Clay-rolled Alcove for Working — Kumiko, 7 elements — The Clay-rolled Alcove for Working

When Layered Bay past Keeping — Asanoha, 4 elements — When Layered Bay past Keeping

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

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

When Candid Beam throughout Lavishing — 100 harmonographs — When Candid Beam throughout Lavishing

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

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

What the Gentle Brook During Crafting — 25 fingerprints — What the Gentle Brook During Crafting

The Practical Basin beneath the Abiding — Argyle, 44 elements — The Practical Basin beneath the Abiding

The Arch of Leisurely without Engraving — 5 hachures — The Arch of Leisurely without Engraving

The Alcove of Dependable down Persisting — 48 molecules — The Alcove of Dependable down Persisting

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

The Deliberate Acre above Seeding — 37 labyrinths — The Deliberate Acre above Seeding

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

See all 205 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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