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Mouse pointer track

Mouse pointer track after 3 hours of working in Photoshop. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks).

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  1. jonobr1 (41 months ago | reply)

    love the coffee break

  2. docholoday (41 months ago | reply)

    Very nice! Can I ask what you used to create the lines and/or follow the cursor?

  3. dsamprasphoto (41 months ago | reply)

    awesome! PLEASE share what you used to do this!? I would love to do it.

  4. thejoshcrain (41 months ago | reply)

    Yes, very cool. Thanks for sharing.

  5. Anatoly Zenkov (41 months ago | reply)

    Thanks! ) This is my java applet. You can take it here: dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.exe.zip (PC) dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.jar (Mac). Run it and leave in background. "S" - save image. "R" - restart.

    UPD: New version of MousePath app just released. Now it's called IOGraph. Grab it here iographica.com/

  6. Erick.. (41 months ago | reply)

    Excelent..Thanks for sharing.

  7. Mitchell J. Goldstein (41 months ago | reply)

    awesome, trying it out right now

  8. FlyingOx (41 months ago | reply)

    good idea

  9. Jon Ragnarsson (41 months ago | reply)

    Great little app... too bad it doesn't work on multi-monitor setup

  10. bobisbob (41 months ago | reply)

    Judging from that, Photoshop really needs good keyboard shortcuts for switching layers.

  11. Soliz Photography (41 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful little app.
    Though it dislikes Dual monitor and tends to eat up resources :(
    I will have to give it a try when it is a Friday.

  12. POPCHA! (41 months ago | reply)

    Awesome App! Check out my path: turtlethink.com/2010/01/my-mouse-path/

    Great work, Anatoly!

  13. mikepaktinat (41 months ago | reply)

    Very neat. Do you have code available? I'd be interested in getting it to work on multiple monitors.

  14. Soliz Photography (41 months ago | reply)

    3hrs of Illustrator :)

  15. macfady3n (41 months ago | reply)

    Hey man, how did you remove the white from the image? That's cool.

  16. Soliz Photography (41 months ago | reply)

    If you're using Photoshop, change the top layer which is the Mouse Path layer to Multiply. This will remove the white for you.

  17. Peon Peetie (40 months ago | reply)

    funny too how there's such a big circle on the dock icon since ps takes forever to load up...

  18. alexmilde (40 months ago | reply)

    cool!
    awesome work

    i did a smiliar thing a while ago. i used a proceesing app to track the data and wrote a renderer in flash.

    gallery:
    www.flickr.com/photos/alexmilde/sets/72157617 159365639/

    project info:
    www.alexmil.de/colored/
    www.alexmil.de/codeispoetryartlab/

    just start the app, and click in it to stop it. the flash renderer is included

  19. robinrimbaud (40 months ago | reply)

    so beautiful!

  20. uberhaqer (40 months ago | reply)

    Just like to let people know the jar runs on Linux fine! Excellent little app!

  21. bradleyland (40 months ago | reply)

    @bobisbob

    On a Mac, the kb shortcut is opt+[ and opt+]. The same key combination with cmd instead of opt moves layers fwd and back.

  22. brightpisces (40 months ago | reply)

    what are the circles?

  23. milobennett (40 months ago | reply)

    Now I see why my hand is numb at 5 O'clock. If I could put that many miles on my feet I wouldn't be so fat.

  24. uberhaqer (40 months ago | reply)

    @brightpisces - the circles are when you stop moving your mouse, the larger the circle the longer it is stopped.

    Would be cool if it measure the distance you have moved your mouse about the screen hehe

  25. yuri goytacaz (40 months ago | reply)

    if you stop to think, there's a lot of thinking in that image. (=

  26. Stephen De Vight (40 months ago | reply)

    @uberhager look into a program called WhatPulse, it tracks (anonymously) key presses, mouse clicks, and miles your cursor has moved. It's really amazing to see that in a few months I have over a million key presses across all of my computers!

  27. Soliz Photography (40 months ago | reply)


    End of the day, this is a full 9hr work day.

  28. Stephen De Vight (40 months ago | reply)

    Here's about 45 minutes of processing photos in Lightroom:

  29. francis.aldana (40 months ago | reply)

    This is sorta beautiful actually..

  30. colorcritical (40 months ago | reply)

    wtf? makes interesting art

  31. Edward Horsford (40 months ago | reply)

    Very interesting concept. Seen on digg. congrats.

  32. mkrn (40 months ago | reply)

    классный апплет! может пригодиться для исследования юзабилити веб-страниц!

  33. BRY△N {KÜLOR} (40 months ago | reply)

    Rad, this is mine after only an hour:

  34. aoisenshi (40 months ago | reply)

    impressive!! nice applet!

  35. oCfuu (40 months ago | reply)

    InstaFave™

  36. digital josh (40 months ago | reply)

    Bravo! I too would like the source - or I suppose I could reproduce it. I'd like to add some indication of typing. For example, make the colors change in proportion to WPM, making concentric rings according to typing speed :)

  37. tylaroverturf (40 months ago | reply)

    Is there a way to increase the size of the area it covers? I have a 1920x1080 res and i would like it to cover it all.

  38. dshibarshin (40 months ago | reply)

    wow thats some impressive drawing!

  39. bperry (40 months ago | reply)

    very cool, thanks for sharing - will have to try it out

  40. Amarrok (40 months ago | reply)

    thanks for the proggy, awesome and fun to see the results!

    my piece after execution:

  41. bmoss234 (40 months ago | reply)

    Where does the file save to?

  42. chaitanyakrishnan (40 months ago | reply)

    thanks for sharing

  43. MiMoriarty (40 months ago | reply)

    Very nice, thx for sharing. Ill try it

  44. bobd314 [deleted] (40 months ago | reply)

    Very cool! Unfortunately it doesn't pick up mouse movements on my 2nd monitor.

  45. John MW Samuelson (40 months ago | reply)

    This is great. I'm tracking mouse movement over the course of today...thanks.

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