digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What Leathery Bluff betwixt Engraving — 21 lemniscates — What Leathery Bluff betwixt Engraving

21 lemniscates settle across the surface in no order but their own. Against the bright teal 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

82 works so far 5,398 shapes

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

When Leathery Bog for Rounding — 113 astroids — When Leathery Bog for Rounding

The Warm-hued Brook into Anchoring — Guilloché, 50 elements — The Warm-hued Brook into Anchoring

The Fertile Atoll among the Enduring — 98 tricuspoids — The Fertile Atoll among the Enduring

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

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

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

The Border betwixt Tilled Laboring — 37 Chladni figures — The Border betwixt Tilled Laboring

The Alabaster Blossom near Tingling — Girih, 100 elements — The Alabaster Blossom near Tingling

What the Mellowed Bay During Enduring — 12 trapeziums — What the Mellowed Bay During Enduring

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

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

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

When Soft Canyon among Kindling — 11 spirals — When Soft Canyon among Kindling

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

Matronly Alcove nearby Holding — 3 Apollonian gaskets — Matronly Alcove nearby Holding

The Bluff of Calm beneath Setting — 100 Truchet tiles — The Bluff of Calm beneath Setting

The Countrified Basin betwixt Pausing — 16 Sierpinski triangles — The Countrified Basin betwixt Pausing

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

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

When Husky Basin till Delineating — 126 paths — When Husky Basin till Delineating

See all 82 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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