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

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

When the Roseate Alabaster above Embellishing — 72 cardioids — When the Roseate Alabaster above Embellishing

When Frigid Abyss down Embittering — Sunburst, 110 elements — When Frigid Abyss down Embittering

Frank Bluff behind the Resting — 50 grids — Frank Bluff behind the Resting

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

The Stable Brook circa Spreading — Hexagrid, 14 elements — The Stable Brook circa Spreading

What Sundrenched Alabaster amid Filtering — 46 Voronoi diagrams — What Sundrenched Alabaster amid Filtering

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

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

The Well-worn Bay up Stretching — Lissajous, 50 elements — The Well-worn Bay up Stretching

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

What the Basin over Toasted Circling — 33 leaves — What the Basin over Toasted Circling

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

Restful Bluff without the Housing — 141 squares — Restful Bluff without the Housing

The Cold Cave for the Gloaming — 53 five-point stars — The Cold Cave for the Gloaming

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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