The Infinite Line No. 2 is a web-based work that started on the 9th of October 2019 at 15:46:12 CET DST. It is an automated line that grows one pixel per second.
The Infinite Line is a web-based work that started on the 9th of October 2009 at 15:46:12 CET DST. It is an automated line that grows one pixel per second.
Next is a video documentation of the Infinite Line on the 20th of September 2012 running in Safari. The line already got 'heavier' to load which made it not go 'forward' one pixel per second as intended, but it jumped a couple of pixels per couple of seconds.
As browsers reacted differently to the growing line something unexpected happened. After Internet Explorer (10737418 pixels) and Firefox (17895698 pixels) met their max limits the Infinite Line was still going in Chrome and Safari, but not completely how it supposed to go. As the line grew bigger the script got 'heavier' to run for those two browsers and in the beginning small glitches started to appear when you scrolled far right. It started with the line moving 3 pixels per 3 seconds. Then small dots appeared randomly in the browser. Green from the line and black from the text.
Later the line would disappear completely:
Or became invisible:
And sometimes it appeared again:
The glitches are not static. When resizing the browser window different forms appear:
A nice composition:
Here is an album with more screenshots of the glitches. Over time the form of the glitches changed. For now it seems that they only show in Safari.
"if you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infinity, still what remains is infinity".
from The Isha Upanishad of the Yajurveda (c. 4th to 3rd century BC)
Non-Stop Infinity, exhibition by peer to space, Future Gallery, Berlin, 2011
Code by Martin Pool
