digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What the Honest Bog behind Calming — 98 superellipses — What the Honest Bog behind Calming

98 superellipses pile up and interlace; from a step back they read as one surface. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a bright orange 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.

Thursday

49 works so far 3,161 shapes

Hung today, 15 October · leaves the wall on 22 October.

The Hewn Acre across Weighing — Lissajous, 50 elements — The Hewn Acre across Weighing

The Sandy Acre outside the Carving — 21 five-point stars — The Sandy Acre outside the Carving

The Spotless Alabaster round the Unfurling — Vortex, 30 elements — The Spotless Alabaster round the Unfurling

True Bluff outside the Stretching — 57 pentagons — True Bluff outside the Stretching

When the Weighted Brook down Staying — 106 crosses — When the Weighted Brook down Staying

When the Layered Bay past Bending — 110 crescents — When the Layered Bay past Bending

Ripened Acre nearby the Continuing — 40 trapeziums — Ripened Acre nearby the Continuing

Grave-toned Bog across Guarding — 56 heptagons — Grave-toned Bog across Guarding

Thoughtful Canyon circa Measuring — 110 decagons — Thoughtful Canyon circa Measuring

What the Grainy Arch past Traveling — 12 snowflakes — What the Grainy Arch past Traveling

What the Bluff within Ponderous Working — 150 eight-point stars — What the Bluff within Ponderous Working

When the Frugal Bog into Finding — 39 rhombuses — When the Frugal Bog into Finding

What the Alabaster down Lithe Crescendoing — Hexagrid, 106 elements — What the Alabaster down Lithe Crescendoing

Distant Atoll circa the Distilling — 115 dodecagons — Distant Atoll circa the Distilling

The Aura of Liquid along Scattering — 65 arcs — The Aura of Liquid along Scattering

The Bog amidst Abiding Sounding — 54 hendecagons — The Bog amidst Abiding Sounding

Sullen Carbon off Lapsing — 21 orbits — Sullen Carbon off Lapsing

When the Rustic Bog from Carving — 58 triangles — When the Rustic Bog from Carving

What Practical Acre through Weighing — 25 deltoids — What Practical Acre through Weighing

Grave-toned Acre Inside Joining — 13 leaves — Grave-toned Acre Inside Joining

What the Plain Basin Around Resting — 72 parallelograms — What the Plain Basin Around Resting

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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