digitallineart: Unique order in the chaos of digital lines

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.

Sunday

83 works so far 5,829 shapes

Hung today, 18 October · leaves the wall on 25 October.

Fluttering Breath through Crystallizing — 129 heptagons — Fluttering Breath through Crystallizing

The Soft Basin of Weighing — 99 squares — The Soft Basin of Weighing

Measured Basin nearby the Changing — 110 superellipses — Measured Basin nearby the Changing

The Dappled Blossom across the Streaming — Lissajous, 64 elements — The Dappled Blossom across the Streaming

Rough Bog with Embedding — 92 nonagons — Rough Bog with Embedding

What the Candle into Feathered Gleaming — 52 tricuspoids — What the Candle into Feathered Gleaming

The Unshaken Bluff down Aging — 23 lines — The Unshaken Bluff down Aging

When Autumnal Border upon Standing — Hexagrid, 75 elements — When Autumnal Border upon Standing

Honeyed Acre behind Following — Herringbone, 25 elements — Honeyed Acre behind Following

What the Staid Bog within Bearing — 70 rhombuses — What the Staid Bog within Bearing

When Nascent Aura near Enkindling — Girih, 50 elements — When Nascent Aura near Enkindling

The Basin of Strong without Following — 28 zigzags — The Basin of Strong without Following

Dejected Cavern underneath the Hollowing — 130 gears — Dejected Cavern underneath the Hollowing

When Open Aura nearby Cavorting — 67 Penrose suns — When Open Aura nearby Cavorting

The Easygoing Atoll round the Bridging — Kagome Lattice, 16 elements — The Easygoing Atoll round the Bridging

Lukewarm Bog without Bracing — 77 arrows — Lukewarm Bog without Bracing

The Arch up Firm Earning — Delaunay Triangulation, 75 elements — The Arch up Firm Earning

What Warm-hued Bay via Abiding — 134 Sierpinski triangles — What Warm-hued Bay via Abiding

What Worldly Basin despite Echoing — 23 decagons — What Worldly Basin despite Echoing

What the Bay via Clay-rolled Circling — 40 curves — What the Bay via Clay-rolled Circling

The Condemned Cave circa Crumbling — 74 rectangles — The Condemned Cave circa Crumbling

See all 83 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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