digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

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

50 elements of lissajous settle across the surface in no order but their own. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a muted teal 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

48 works so far 3,263 shapes

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

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

Gloomy Cairn for Rotting — 85 crescents — Gloomy Cairn for Rotting

The Timeworn Atoll across the Curing — 49 rectangles — The Timeworn Atoll across the Curing

When Glowing Alabaster with Shimmering — 10 triangles — When Glowing Alabaster with Shimmering

When the Steady Atoll past Building — 130 polylines — When the Steady Atoll past Building

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

The Aura of Fleeting from Crystallizing — 24 octagons — The Aura of Fleeting from Crystallizing

The Atoll nearby Methodical Spanning — 19 decagons — The Atoll nearby Methodical Spanning

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

The Luminous Beam betwixt Lifting — 67 waves — The Luminous Beam betwixt Lifting

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

When Placid Brook toward Fitting — 126 lines — When Placid Brook toward Fitting

Angelic Air atop the Aerating — 57 deltoids — Angelic Air atop the Aerating

The Arch onto Rooted Moving — Vortex, 109 elements — The Arch onto Rooted Moving

The Temperate Arch Around Turning — 31 zigzags — The Temperate Arch Around Turning

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

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

The Cold Cave for the Gloaming — 53 five-point stars — The Cold Cave for the Gloaming

The Furrowed Border on Kindling — 76 circles — The Furrowed Border on Kindling

The Arch of Ingrained unto Lining — 91 teardrops — The Arch of Ingrained unto Lining

When Homespun Border Around Enclosing — 100 orbits — When Homespun Border Around Enclosing

See all 48 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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