digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

Remorseless Burial amid Wracking — Tartan, 60 elements — Remorseless Burial amid Wracking

60 elements of tartan drift over the ground, some touching, most keeping their distance. Against the deep green ground, no two of them share a colour.

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

146 works so far 9,095 shapes

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

The Autumnal Basin outside the Cradling — 88 snowflakes — The Autumnal Basin outside the Cradling

Dignified Alcove up the Collecting — 121 six-point stars — Dignified Alcove up the Collecting

When Known Atoll amid Leaning — Delaunay Triangulation, 29 elements — When Known Atoll amid Leaning

Harmonious Aura till the Cleansing — 68 nephroids — Harmonious Aura till the Cleansing

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

The Arch after Seasoned Working — Asanoha, 25 elements — The Arch after Seasoned Working

When Autumnal Border beside Gathering — Craquelure, 50 elements — When Autumnal Border beside Gathering

When the Clear Basin without Abiding — Mesh, 63 elements — When the Clear Basin without Abiding

Shaped Bluff toward Shaping — 116 circle involutes — Shaped Bluff toward Shaping

The Honest Arch alongside Spinning — 71 dodecagons — The Honest Arch alongside Spinning

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

What the Rich Brook by Waiting — 71 Penrose suns — What the Rich Brook by Waiting

When the Balmy Beam beneath Effervescing — 101 trochoids — When the Balmy Beam beneath Effervescing

See all 146 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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