digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What the Tired Cavern down Sundering — Hexagrid, 44 elements — What the Tired Cavern down Sundering

44 elements of hexagrid spread across the field, crossing wherever chance brought them together. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a deep red 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

45 works so far 2,655 shapes

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

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

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

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

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

When Earthy Atoll into Steadying — 61 eight-point stars — When Earthy Atoll into Steadying

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

What Countrified Bluff by Hedging — 50 heptagons — What Countrified Bluff by Hedging

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

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

The Bog of Unflappable in Cradling — 28 stripes — The Bog of Unflappable in Cradling

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

The Lingering Atoll via the Circling — Mesh, 131 elements — The Lingering Atoll via the Circling

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

The Arch near Easygoing Collecting — 141 deltoids — The Arch near Easygoing Collecting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See all 45 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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