A collection from the archive

Digital.

The same pulse. A different place to find it.

The collection

The lines, in digital.

39 documented finds.
One very familiar set of lines.

A computer-generated interpretation of the Unknown Pleasures pulse stack, with new peaks in white on black

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The Unknown Pleasures Generator

Denis Vida / dvida

A reconstruction of the CP1919 pulse waveform in black lines on a white background

A CP1919 waveform reconstruction

Kakomat

Unknown Pleasures — 3D web music experiment — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — 3D web music experiment

poeti8

Unknown Pleasures heightmap converter — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures heightmap converter

leoadberg

Joy Waves — reference image from GitHub

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Joy Waves

vanyakosmos

Unknown Pleasures in Python and Matplotlib — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures in Python and Matplotlib

igorol

Unknown Pleasures — animated Matplotlib lines — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — animated Matplotlib lines

rougier

Pulsar — HTML5 Canvas animation — reference image from GitHub

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Pulsar — HTML5 Canvas animation

rog

Unknown Pleasures weather plot — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures weather plot

ndrhzn

CATT10 Unknown Pleasures — reference image from GitHub

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CATT10 Unknown Pleasures

revdancatt

Unknown Pleasures — Nova Iskra workshop generator — reference image from GitHub

Unknown Pleasures — Nova Iskra workshop generator

BRUTALISM

JoyDivision.xls — reference image from GitHub

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JoyDivision.xls

inaniwa3

Topojoy — reference image from GitHub

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Topojoy

flxn

Unknown Pleasures image-brightness sketch — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures image-brightness sketch

BachToTheFuture

Unknown Pleasures — Processing cover generator — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — Processing cover generator

piero2c

Unknown Pleasures — C++ 3D animation — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — C++ 3D animation

skmhrk1209

Unknown Pleasures — Gaussian and Perlin generator — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — Gaussian and Perlin generator

mooskislide

Unknown Pleasures — probability-density canvas — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — probability-density canvas

hansibalen

Ridgeline — solar-system explorer — reference image from GitHub

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Ridgeline — solar-system explorer

idle-intelligence

Unknown Pleasures — animated p5.js sketch — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — animated p5.js sketch

mario-nowak

Joy Divisualizer — reference image from GitHub

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Joy Divisualizer

elabraha

Joy Division in Excel — reference image from GitHub

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Joy Division in Excel

gluijk

Unknown Pleasures geodata visualizer — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures geodata visualizer

mtizim

Joy Division Cover Generation — reference image from GitHub

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Joy Division Cover Generation

0xekez

Unknown Messages — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Messages

Shapkofil

Cycling Elevation as Joy Division Album Art — reference image from GitHub

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Cycling Elevation as Joy Division Album Art

brittenr

Recodage de Unknown Pleasures — reference image from GitHub

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Recodage de Unknown Pleasures

L0R3Z

Unknown Pleasure — algorithmic-aesthetics recoding — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasure — algorithmic-aesthetics recoding

baptistejouin

Waves — Unknown Pleasures in C — reference image from GitHub

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Waves — Unknown Pleasures in C

mfussi66

Random Unknown Pleasures T-shirt Generator — reference image from GitHub

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Random Unknown Pleasures T-shirt Generator

mabelsfatalfable

MyConnectome meets Joy Division — reference image from GitHub

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MyConnectome meets Joy Division

jokedurnez

Joy Division — Clojure Generative Artistry implementation — reference image from GitHub

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Joy Division — Clojure Generative Artistry implementation

ingalless

Wave Division — Unknown Mergers — reference image from GitHub

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Wave Division — Unknown Mergers

alphydan

Unknown Pleasure photo and GIF effect — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasure photo and GIF effect

Jaeger87

Joy Division plot in Matplotlib and Pandas — reference image from GitHub

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Joy Division plot in Matplotlib and Pandas

MyreLab

CP1919 — R data package and ggplot rendering — reference image from GitHub

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CP1919 — R data package and ggplot rendering

coolbutuseless

CP1919 — Processing animation — reference image from GitHub

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CP1919 — Processing animation

rog

Unknown Pleasures — NumPy and Matplotlib studies — reference image from GitHub

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Unknown Pleasures — NumPy and Matplotlib studies

xjpa

A still from CP1919’s official white artwork film, showing a softly lit three-dimensional pulse landscape

CP1919 — Sweeping Sun

Peter Saville / Stephen Morris / Joy Division Archive