Anti-lock braking system × MaxLinear +15.0% × Corrosion
JAEV, Content, 2 October 2026
On 2 October 2026, the Wikipedia article on Anti-lock braking system was read 90,185 times, 205 times more than a week earlier. MaxLinear rose 15.0 % on the Nasdaq. The article on Corrosion was read 58,821 times, 202 times more than a week earlier. This work takes its title from them. Its image is made from this text.
The day's attention
The work was made on 7 October 2026 from three measures of attention. The Wikipedia figures are for 2 October 2026.
Wikipedia: Anti-lock braking system
On 2 October, the English Wikipedia article on Anti-lock braking system, described by Wikipedia as “Safety anti-skid braking system used on aerospace and land vehicles”, was read 90,185 times, the 30th most read article on English Wikipedia that day. A week earlier it was read 441 times. Over the last thirty days its readership peaked on 2 October, with 90,185 readers. The article exists in 53 language editions of Wikipedia.
| Russian | Антиблокировочная система | 258 |
| German | Antiblockiersystem | 63 |
| French | Système anti-blocage des roues | 60 |
| Japanese | アンチロック・ブレーキ・システム | 59 |
| Italian | Sistema anti bloccaggio | 34 |
| Chinese | 防鎖死煞車系統 | 25 |
| Spanish | Sistema de frenos antibloqueo | 24 |
| Polish | ABS (motoryzacja) | 24 |
Nasdaq: MaxLinear
MaxLinear (MXL) rose 15.0 % on 2 October, from $92.12 to $105.93 a share. Among Nasdaq-listed companies worth more than five billion dollars, it was the largest move of the day. 4,790,159 shares changed hands, and the company is valued at about $9.9 billion.
Wikipedia: Corrosion
On 2 October, the English Wikipedia article on Corrosion, described by Wikipedia as “Gradual destruction of materials by chemical reaction with its environment”, was read 58,821 times, the 50th most read article on English Wikipedia that day. A week earlier it was read 291 times. Over the last thirty days its readership peaked on 2 October, with 58,821 readers. The article exists in 80 language editions of Wikipedia.
| Russian | Коррозия | 68 |
| German | Korrosion | 65 |
| Spanish | Corrosión | 42 |
| Japanese | 腐食 | 37 |
| French | Corrosion | 35 |
| Italian | Corrosione | 16 |
| Polish | Korozja | 14 |
| Dutch | Corrosie | 12 |
Bluesky trends were not recorded before the series began on 8 October 2026, so the works for the week before take their third part from the second-fastest-rising Wikipedia article instead.
The work
The text at the top of this page was turned into a fingerprint, the SHA-256 hash below. The hash chose one possibility in each part of the work:
| Composition | waves |
| Shape | polygon |
| Edge | pixel |
| Colours | earth |
| Movement | pulse |
| Symmetry | none |
| Layers | grid/source-over |
| Palette |
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Sources: Wikipedia and Wikimedia pageviews; Nasdaq.
How the works are made
Every morning the gallery's server collects three measures of attention from the previous day: the Wikipedia article whose readership rose the most, the share on the Nasdaq that moved the most, and a topic trending on Bluesky. Their names become the title of the day's work. A short text records the numbers behind them.
The image is made from that text and nothing else. The text is turned into a fingerprint, a long number that changes completely if a single character changes. The number makes one choice in each of seven parts of the work: composition, shape, edge, colours, movement, symmetry and layers. The same text always gives the same work.
Nobody chooses the topics. A wedding, a share price, a film, an election or a death can become a title; the system treats them all the same, as the attention economy does. The title is chosen for attention. The image says nothing about its subject. It is an honest trace of a day's attention, but not an explanation of it.
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