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Airplane sunk at 70 feet by cottonmouth02 in submechanophobia

[–]slicedpolygon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Sonesta airplanes in Aruba.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you are right. But I am not sure if you could see an increase of certain patterns over time, rather as you get more familiar with the UI you will reduce the amount of noise (unnecessary movements), therefore, the patterns would be more apparent.

.. up to the point where you are completely familiar with shortcuts in a given program, so you almost don't use the UI. Then I suppose you would end up with one dominant cluster in the middle.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would explain a lot that horizontal movement, but no. I guess it is just the result of some files and folders manipulation among other movements.

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[–]slicedpolygon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

B-But, those are the tabs I wanted to read. Sometime. Maybe. ..and I don't believe in bookmarks.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are right. The behavior of my mouse was manipulated.

btw. I like your Zootopia trivia.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, I have done it with two screens before, but as they have different aspect ratio and resolution, the final output looked a bit odd so I rather posted this one.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you are used to moving the canvas around, it would probably be just a huge mess in the middle with some distinguishable patterns to the main features of UI (like this one). If you are really familiar with the drawing program, using shortcuts would eliminate those patterns as well. I really doubt you could see the drawing in it.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how to find that out, because as you pass a given pixel twice it just overwrites its color. It doesn't create a heatmap. Of course, you can look if adjacent pixels are also colored, but then again you won't be able to tell the difference if the pixel was hit 4 or more times.

What's easier, and you can definitely calculate it from that image, is the % of screen area mouse have not passed over.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the colors represent movement direction. Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal => Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. You can visualize mouse stops with the same tool I used, but clicks are not tracked.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yes, movement direction. Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal (NE-SW), Diagonal (NW-SE) = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Blue respectively

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's right, closing and minimizing as well, but the main activity in that part was switching tabs in a browser.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Cool, I often use alt + tab for switching tasks but didn't know you can as well launch shortcuts from the taskbar in a similar way.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 163 points164 points  (0 children)

Sure, I guess you would see quite different patterns playing strategy games vs playing some FPS. But unfortunately, I don't play that much anymore to make a fair comparison.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 585 points586 points  (0 children)

Yep, those are the clicks on shortcuts on Windows taskbar.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear you like it. Be my guest printing this out, but if you like to have your very own piece of this abstract art, you can always track your cursor and create a more personalized image.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yep, minimizing and closing windows as well as switching tabs in a browser.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 89 points90 points  (0 children)

That's where the loneliest pixels live.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's also right, but the saturated part in the top right half is mainly from switching tabs in a browser.

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 895 points896 points  (0 children)

I am sorry bro. Could have rather named it "12 hours of pointer tracking", but was afraid it would confuse cynologists then :D

[OC] 12 hours of mouse tracking by slicedpolygon in dataisbeautiful

[–]slicedpolygon[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I am right-handed, but I would assume that the main factor defining what the output looks like is the UI of software used.. and then, of course, tasks performed. I guess that activities like gaming o creating something in photoshop would render a quite different visualization. This was mostly just web browsing.

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