Code X

Code X is today's hot news as tomorrow's dead text. Every day at 12:01 A.M., the program fetches the Google news page and processes it to extract a pattern based on the length of the constituent words, the spaces between them, and the location of the top-three highest frequency words. Like fingerprints, the resulting images do not vary greatly from one another but each is nonetheless unique.

Code X ran continuously from April 8, 2006 to June 3, 2007, when technical problems forced it offline. The original algorithm generated black-and-white images. I have since modified it to generate color images. The new version of Code X went online on December 24, 2007.