digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What the Atoll betwixt Sound Forming — Vortex, 149 elements — What the Atoll betwixt Sound Forming

149 elements of vortex 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 blue 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.

Wednesday

42 works so far 2,452 shapes

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

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

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

When the Effervescent Brilliance up Singing — 58 arcs — When the Effervescent Brilliance up Singing

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

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

The Canyon underneath Husky Stretching — 13 rhombuses — The Canyon underneath Husky Stretching

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

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

When Levitating Aurora between Enlivening — 75 six-point stars — When Levitating Aurora between Enlivening

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

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

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

What Ordinary Arch Since Engraving — 8 leaves — What Ordinary Arch Since Engraving

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

Mindful Bluff circa Seeding — 112 crescents — Mindful Bluff circa Seeding

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

The Canyon within Restful Grounding — 71 orbits — The Canyon within Restful Grounding

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

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

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

Time-honored Bay betwixt the Moving — 29 polylines — Time-honored Bay betwixt the Moving

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

See all 42 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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