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.

Thursday

89 works so far 5,770 shapes

Hung today, 15 October · leaves the wall on 22 October.

When Patinaed Basin upon Setting — 106 hexagons — When Patinaed Basin upon Setting

True Bluff outside the Stretching — 57 pentagons — True Bluff outside the Stretching

Ripened Acre nearby the Continuing — 40 trapeziums — Ripened Acre nearby the Continuing

What the Grainy Arch past Traveling — 12 snowflakes — What the Grainy Arch past Traveling

The Bog of Centered amidst Resting — 77 nonagons — The Bog of Centered amidst Resting

When the Intact Canyon atop Centering — 75 Chladni figures — When the Intact Canyon atop Centering

Clear Brook via Centering — 118 tricuspoids — Clear Brook via Centering

The Cascade past Ascending Flaring — 100 Voronoi diagrams — The Cascade past Ascending Flaring

Rough Bluff under the Moving — Girih, 75 elements — Rough Bluff under the Moving

The Dependable Bog in the Turning — 32 octagons — The Dependable Bog in the Turning

The Mellowed Canyon above Brewing — 91 ellipses — The Mellowed Canyon above Brewing

Grave-toned Acre Inside Joining — 13 leaves — Grave-toned Acre Inside Joining

When Temperate Bay betwixt Traveling — 88 Truchet tiles — When Temperate Bay betwixt Traveling

The Sandy Acre outside the Carving — 21 five-point stars — The Sandy Acre outside the Carving

The Shadowy Cairn round the Stilling — 25 contours — The Shadowy Cairn round the Stilling

What Practical Acre through Weighing — 25 deltoids — What Practical Acre through Weighing

The Equable Acre beyond the Rooting — 14 spirals — The Equable Acre beyond the Rooting

When the Frugal Bog into Finding — 39 rhombuses — When the Frugal Bog into Finding

The Atoll of Husky between Plowing — 59 nephroids — The Atoll of Husky between Plowing

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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