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Mousepaths + Hiroyuki Hamada

Posted by Alex 02/15/10

Feltron's Mousepaths over 24 Hours


Anatoly Zenkov (3 Hours Working in Photoshop)


My mousepaths while writing this post

These images are recordings of mousepaths using a Java applet by Anatoly Zenkov. In addition to being an interesting aggregation of usage data, they look pretty cool (especially the ones over shorter time periods). The third image is my mousepaths while writing this post. The most telling are my frequent trips to the corners to cue my Exposé actions. Important to note that the black spots are where the mouse stopped for a period of time, not clicks as I thought at first. You can download it here: PC Version | Mac Version.
“S” – save image. “R” – restart.

via Feltron

Hiroyuki Hamada


The last two images are pieces by Hiroyuki Hamada. Completely unrelated yes, but when I saw the mouspath images I immediately recalled these from a couple weeks ago on bdif. I’d worry about you if your mouseclick data looked like this.

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Shelby Says:

This is awesome! I’ll have to try it.

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lauren Says:

I love this, but it doesn’t span my entire screen and there doesn’t seem to be a way to enlarge it.

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Clayton Says:

Lauren -

The window that it runs in doesn’t show up as full screen on your monitor (if it’s of a higher resolution). It does, however, still register every part of your screen (you can test it out by moving your mouse to the corner of your screen, noticing that it goes to the corner in the Java applet window). The image will be the size of your monitors resolution once it’s saved.

Hope this helps…

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mike Says:

I”m going to have to try out the mouse paths thing, it’d be interesting to see.

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Tardlovski Says:

i wish it worked for dual monitors…most of my stuff i do on my left screen but my desktop is fixed on the right and it’s only catching those mouse-ings.
still pretty cool though

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sidefx Says:

i cant figure out where it saves to. =(

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sidefx Says:

nevermind =D

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Julian Says:

Heres mine from a few days ago in Illustrator inbetween breaks at work.

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3434/mymousepath10feb.gif

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Pranav Ainavolu Says:

omg… its really awesome!!!

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nick robinson Says:

Amazing!
I really like how this little device forces you to use time as a factor in creating dynamic between dot sizes.

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Todd Says:

Where does this save the images to? And do you just press S on the keyboard to save or what?

Thanks,, I’m dieing to try this out.

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Bokmerka 8/52 | Oda Hveem Says:

[...] Mønster som dannar seg etter photoshop-jobbing. Sensorar som registrerar musrørsler. Funne på ISO50. [...]

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Paul Anthony Webb Says:

Now this is pretty awesome!

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A Day in the Life of My Mouse « Chris Koerner Says:

[...] reading about a program called Mousepaths on Scott Hansen’s ISO50 blog I thought I’d give it a try [...]

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Hiroyuki Hamada sculpture and art | Cementum Says:

[...] came across Hiroyuki Hamada's work the other day via Iso5050, then another one of my favourite installation art blogs, AcidoLatte covered his work, and the very [...]

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Tiger Tank Euphoria Live @ The Basement | Unmarked Blog Says:

[...] note on the poster design: I had read over on the ISO50 blog about a program called Mousepaths (which is now actually called IOGraph) that traces your mouse [...]

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Andreas Says:

We are excited to show Hiroyuki Hamada’s work at Art Chicago! April 29th until May 3rd 2010! Don’t miss it!

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Emanuel C Says:

Did anyone try printing these things? Any way to blow them up big? Thanks.

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mousepaths Java applet « Abrentisart Blog Says:

[...] mousepaths Java applet By abrentisart This downloadable app records where on youe screen your mouse goes over a set period of time. This makes some pretty cool designs (see below). Dowload link available via iso50. [...]

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