digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

When Old-fashioned Border nearby Crossing — Jellyfish, 37 elements — When Old-fashioned Border nearby Crossing

37 elements of jellyfish share the field — close enough to overlap, loose enough to be told apart. Every line is drawn in a colour of its own against a bright rose 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.

Thursday

194 works so far 11,501 shapes

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

The Harmonious Blossom by Freshening — 43 lines — The Harmonious Blossom by Freshening

Distant Atoll circa the Distilling — 115 dodecagons — Distant Atoll circa the Distilling

When Autumnal Atoll despite Pressing — 62 squares — When Autumnal Atoll despite Pressing

Dependable Acre beyond Channeling — 145 spirolaterals — Dependable Acre beyond Channeling

The Full-bodied Bluff During Channeling — Kagome Lattice, 75 elements — The Full-bodied Bluff During Channeling

When the Rustic Bog from Carving — 58 triangles — When the Rustic Bog from Carving

What the Brook with Muted-gold Growing — 52 circle involutes — What the Brook with Muted-gold Growing

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

The Candle of Sunlit via Swirling — Tachiwaku, 48 elements — The Candle of Sunlit via Swirling

The Bog amidst Abiding Sounding — 54 hendecagons — The Bog amidst Abiding Sounding

The Restful Border round Carving — 133 dandelions — The Restful Border round Carving

When the Weighted Brook down Staying — 106 crosses — When the Weighted Brook down Staying

The Ripened Bluff betwixt Knitting — Sunburst, 54 elements — The Ripened Bluff betwixt Knitting

Mellowed Atoll beneath Rounding — 100 waves — Mellowed Atoll beneath Rounding

When the Sober Atoll betwixt Bending — 118 paths — When the Sober Atoll betwixt Bending

Gleaming Air near the Emerging — Kumiko, 25 elements — Gleaming Air near the Emerging

Nimble Blossom above Waking — 45 cardioids — Nimble Blossom above Waking

See all 194 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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