digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What the Acre Around Reasonable Carving — Lissajous, 13 elements — What the Acre Around Reasonable Carving

13 elements of lissajous spread across the field, crossing wherever chance brought them together. A bright rose ground sits behind them, and every line answers it in a different 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.

Saturday

48 works so far 3,515 shapes

Hung today, 17 October · leaves the wall on 24 October.

The Russet Bog beneath Pacing — 38 grids — The Russet Bog beneath Pacing

Lustrous Aura upon the Enlivening — 17 six-point stars — Lustrous Aura upon the Enlivening

True Alcove Since the Bordering — 99 polylines — True Alcove Since the Bordering

What the Alcove betwixt Full-bodied Passing — 20 snowflakes — What the Alcove betwixt Full-bodied Passing

What the Aurora throughout Unbounded Whispering — 2 arcs — What the Aurora throughout Unbounded Whispering

When Sedate Atoll Against Setting — 18 heptagons — When Sedate Atoll Against Setting

The Abyss Since Mourning Quaking — 38 teardrops — The Abyss Since Mourning Quaking

The Balanced Atoll round Turning — 101 dodecagons — The Balanced Atoll round Turning

The Air onto Alabaster Uplifting — 29 rhombuses — The Air onto Alabaster Uplifting

The Alcove on Blended Melting — 84 squares — The Alcove on Blended Melting

What the Ascending Blossom alongside Mellowing — 85 eight-point stars — What the Ascending Blossom alongside Mellowing

Ponderous Basin round the Sharing — 19 seven-point stars — Ponderous Basin round the Sharing

When Plainspoken Atoll without Hedging — 100 orbits — When Plainspoken Atoll without Hedging

When Temperate Bog amidst Forming — 150 trapeziums — When Temperate Bog amidst Forming

Neutral Atoll over Delineating — 18 stripes — Neutral Atoll over Delineating

What the Moribund Basalt unto Graying — 5 hexagons — What the Moribund Basalt unto Graying

What Quiet Bluff for Moving — 102 crescents — What Quiet Bluff for Moving

The Bluff from Hewn Bridging — 146 curves — The Bluff from Hewn Bridging

What the Acre above Mellowed Shaping — 140 hendecagons — What the Acre above Mellowed Shaping

The Cursed Char Since the Suffocating — Vortex, 18 elements — The Cursed Char Since the Suffocating

What the Mild Brook betwixt Channeling — Hexagrid, 75 elements — What the Mild Brook betwixt Channeling

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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