digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

The Aglow Brilliance During Cascading — 9 teardrops — The Aglow Brilliance During Cascading

Just nine teardrops, each one given its own stretch of ground. The bright green ground lets each colour keep its own voice.

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.

Wednesday

30 works so far 1,618 shapes

Hung today, 14 October · leaves the wall on 21 October.

Ocherous Canyon in Forging — 59 crosses — Ocherous Canyon in Forging

When the Earthbound Atoll of Standing — 32 octagons — When the Earthbound Atoll of Standing

Fixed Cape by the Pausing — 10 squares — Fixed Cape by the Pausing

What the Pragmatic Bog over Returning — 89 hendecagons — What the Pragmatic Bog over Returning

When Weighty Border near Settling — 21 pentagons — When Weighty Border near Settling

The Blaze of Silken down Uplifting — 11 arrows — The Blaze of Silken down Uplifting

The Canyon of Leathery round Continuing — 133 zigzags — The Canyon of Leathery round Continuing

When Plain Bog up Standing — 142 seven-point stars — When Plain Bog up Standing

The Basin above Rich Traveling — 6 nonagons — The Basin above Rich Traveling

Practical Border along the Pausing — 53 hexagons — Practical Border along the Pausing

The Neutral Bog underneath the Circling — 4 circles — The Neutral Bog underneath the Circling

Clay-rolled Bluff opposite Enclosing — 85 dodecagons — Clay-rolled Bluff opposite Enclosing

Resolute Bluff outside Tying — 65 spirals — Resolute Bluff outside Tying

What the Dusky-gold Bay near Connecting — 91 curves — What the Dusky-gold Bay near Connecting

What Well-worn Bluff amid Steadying — 58 triangles — What Well-worn Bluff amid Steadying

The Border betwixt Autumnal Knotting — 8 diamonds — The Border betwixt Autumnal Knotting

When Airborne Breath unto Blooming — 79 rectangles — When Airborne Breath unto Blooming

Hardy Atoll in the Climbing — 56 decagons — Hardy Atoll in the Climbing

When Amber-toned Bay beside Enclosing — 111 five-point stars — When Amber-toned Bay beside Enclosing

What the Timeworn Alcove circa Winding — 109 ellipses — What the Timeworn Alcove circa Winding

When the Loamy Bog outside Sharing — 13 waves — When the Loamy Bog outside Sharing

The Olive Bluff upon Turning — 15 lines — The Olive Bluff upon Turning

The Limpid Blaze of the Exalting — 61 paths — The Limpid Blaze of the Exalting

When Temperate Brook betwixt Depositing — 25 grids — When Temperate Brook betwixt Depositing

See all 30 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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