digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

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

89 works so far 5,759 shapes

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

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

When Natural Bluff of Melding — 121 tricuspoids — When Natural Bluff of Melding

Glinting Air amid the Brightening — Guilloché, 44 elements — Glinting Air amid the Brightening

The Subtle Acre underneath Measuring — 134 astroids — The Subtle Acre underneath Measuring

Lukewarm Arch via the Curving — 61 contours — Lukewarm Arch via the Curving

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

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

Weighted Acre onto Flowing — 24 labyrinths — Weighted Acre onto Flowing

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

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

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

What the Carbon along Shrouded Sapping — 73 Apollonian gaskets — What the Carbon along Shrouded Sapping

Crisp Candle among the Glinting — 10 nephroids — Crisp Candle among the Glinting

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

When the Sensible Bog onto Steadying — 25 trapeziums — When the Sensible Bog onto Steadying

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

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

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

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

See all 89 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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