digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

What the Toasted Arch betwixt Turning — Kumiko, 24 elements — What the Toasted Arch betwixt Turning

24 elements of kumiko settle across the surface in no order but their own. A bright olive 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.

Friday

152 works so far 9,354 shapes

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

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

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

When Heartsick Cairn Since Burning — 86 seven-point stars — When Heartsick Cairn Since Burning

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

Temperate Bluff within the Flowing — Rangoli, 43 elements — Temperate Bluff within the Flowing

Reserved Acre throughout the Weighing — Phyllotaxis, 88 elements — Reserved Acre throughout the Weighing

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

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

When the Steady Atoll past Building — 130 polylines — When the Steady Atoll past Building

What Radiant Beam off Lightening — 117 curves — What Radiant Beam off Lightening

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

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

The Luminous Beam betwixt Lifting — 67 waves — The Luminous Beam betwixt Lifting

What the Humble Brook beyond Finding — 24 ellipses — What the Humble Brook beyond Finding

Time-honored Bay nearby Ripening — 93 limaçons — Time-honored Bay nearby Ripening

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

See all 152 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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