digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

The Canyon betwixt Grainy Closing — Kagome Lattice, 44 elements — The Canyon betwixt Grainy Closing

44 elements of kagome lattice spread across the field, crossing wherever chance brought them together. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a bright olive 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.

Friday

67 works so far 4,443 shapes

Hung today, 16 October · leaves the wall on 23 October.

The Alcove of Olive throughout Flowing — Herringbone, 29 elements — The Alcove of Olive throughout Flowing

When Soft Canyon among Kindling — 11 spirals — When Soft Canyon among Kindling

What the Mellowed Bay During Enduring — 12 trapeziums — What the Mellowed Bay During Enduring

The Brilliant Blossom over Flourishing — 147 heptagons — The Brilliant Blossom over Flourishing

What the Burnished Bay beneath Spreading — 135 hendecagons — What the Burnished Bay beneath Spreading

When Methodical Arch nearby Fording — 110 mandalas — When Methodical Arch nearby Fording

When Frigid Abyss down Embittering — Sunburst, 110 elements — When Frigid Abyss down Embittering

When the Muffled Border before Turning — 40 superellipses — When the Muffled Border before Turning

What the Humble Brook beyond Finding — 24 ellipses — What the Humble Brook beyond Finding

Empty Cave During the Hounding — 55 stripes — Empty Cave During the Hounding

What the Basin over Toasted Circling — 33 leaves — What the Basin over Toasted Circling

Frank Bluff behind the Resting — 50 grids — Frank Bluff behind the Resting

The Basin past Sustained Returning — 18 arrows — The Basin past Sustained Returning

The Well-worn Bay up Stretching — Lissajous, 50 elements — The Well-worn Bay up Stretching

What the Russet Atoll across Shaping — 72 contours — What the Russet Atoll across Shaping

Reserved Acre throughout the Weighing — Phyllotaxis, 88 elements — Reserved Acre throughout the Weighing

Devoted Canyon across the Abiding — 38 crosses — Devoted Canyon across the Abiding

When Husky Basin till Delineating — 126 paths — When Husky Basin till Delineating

What Radiant Beam off Lightening — 117 curves — What Radiant Beam off Lightening

What Sundrenched Alabaster amid Filtering — 46 Voronoi diagrams — What Sundrenched Alabaster amid Filtering

Intrinsic Arch onto the Melding — 75 pentagons — Intrinsic Arch onto the Melding

What the Aloft Cascade across Dazzling — 42 rhombuses — What the Aloft Cascade across Dazzling

See all 67 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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