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It traces your mouse and creates density marks where you leave your mouse sitting.
It's pretty neat. I used it to make my old wallpaper. I need to download it again, actually...
There was another program that did this, it made a better looking image (imo, I don't like the blue colour in mostly b/w pic). Trying to find it... Here it is: http://iographica.com/. Ex1, Ex2.
(not to steal your thunder OP)
I actually had to look this up myself. From the website:
>Whilst lines obviously represent the mouse movement, dots and circles around them represent the amount of time the mouse was not moving. The longer the mouse is not touched, the more the dots and circles diameter. The main reason for having them on canvas is to enhance the expression.
They are technically mouse movements. Actually the lack of mouse movement. From the website:
> Whilst lines obviously represent the mouse movement, dots and circles around them represent the amount of time the mouse was not moving. The longer the mouse is not touched, the more the dots and circles diameter. The main reason for having them on canvas is to enhance the expression.
Left monitor is editing/web browsing and right monitor is for movies etc.
It's amazing to see just how many mouse strokes a wrist does in just a couple of days. I'd be interested to see if all mouse movement could be recorded and converted to a number of feet moved within a period of time. I bet it's a staggering number
Tool used is IOGraphica, Data source is my desktop.
> Whilst lines obviously represent the mouse movement, dots and circles around them represent the amount of time the mouse was not moving. The longer the mouse is not touched, the more the dots and circles diameter. The main reason for having them on canvas is to enhance the expression.
If I understand it correctly they're the same data and just made to look cool(er). Notice that for every black dot there's a circle surrounding it, even the very big ones.
http://iographica.com/ if you are wary of the online nature of Whatpulse.
Last I checked whatpulse sent nothing but counts up (managed to sniff the packets) but I understand if people are not trusting of such an app.
I used the IOGraphica mouse tracker which can be found here.
The few lines away from the center are to my second monitor to add songs to my playlist. Other than that I only started Agario and played.
Just a little extra info. The lines obviously are where the mouse moved and the dots are locations where the mouse stopped. Bigger the circle the longer the stop, and I think the white circles are where I clicked.
You can download it here if you want.
"Whilst lines obviously represent the mouse movement, dots and circles around them represent the amount of time the mouse was not moving. The longer the mouse is not touched, the more the dots and circles diameter. The main reason for having them on canvas is to enhance the expression." - http://iographica.com/
I used IOGraph.
The left screen had Chrome with ksp wiki and some other stuff. The main screen is where I played. As you can see there is a lot of activity in the left side of it (rocket pieces) and on the right to set up staging.
I did my first Minmus mission (form which i got 2.6k science), rocket testing and a few planes. The big circles represent the time the mouse remained iddle.
This shows wherever I've moved, clicked, or kept the mouse in a certain place.
Moving is represented by lines, clicking is represented by hollow circles, and keeping the mouse in place is represented by filled circles.
The program I used for this is called IOgraphica and can be found here.
Here is the website if you guys want to try it out for yourself.
Also, the reason CS and Minecraft have completely different 'drawings' is because the mouse functions totally differently in them. After each movement the mouse is 'centered' again (to allow 360 turning), whereas SC2 is a game that acknowledges the edges of the screen, so the map is a more accurate depiction of where your cursor was during the game.
I think OP is aware of that. These responses are like if someone said "there's no UI to pick your preferred color" in response to the popular feature request to be able to do so. The point is that self-evidently it would have to be added in order to support the feature.
Recording mouse cursor movement isn't exactly the hardest thing to do. Lots of software can track your mouse cursor movement. Here's an example: http://iographica.com/ or whatever [this guy](/r/starcraft/comments/4dgihw/mouse_heatmap_after_18_hours_of_starcraft/) used to create that heat map. Brood War had a launcher/plugin that could track your mouse cursor movement and show it in replays. This would probably be the least challenging piece of technology to implement.
There are other pieces of the puzzle that would need to be solved, such as accounting for different screen aspect ratios.
> The program I used was http://iographica.com/[1] , the lines mean movements and dots represent where the mouse was still, with the circle around them showing how long the mouse was still for.
Literally the first comment
> …dots and circles around them represent the amount of time the mouse was not moving. The longer the mouse is not touched, the more the dots and circles diameter.
Here is a link to the original thread, and here is a link to where Pandahh posted their image.
edit: I'm gonna post the descriptions here, as well as under the images on imgur.
The first image is Alhuth's original image. The way that you read these images is quite simple. Lines show anywhere that the mouse moves, and circles show where the mouse lingered (bigger circle means that they lingered there longer). What this graph tells you is that Alhuth navigates the map almost exclusively by panning at the sides of the screen, and seems to rarely use the mini map. As a jungler (they said that they were jungling Dr. Mundo), they could vastly improve their skill level by using the mini map to check on their allies more, as well as using it to ping and communicate with their team.
The second graph shows a game by Pandahh, who says that he was jungling Jax. Notice how different this graph looks from Alhuth's. He doesn't pan at all, and very clearly uses his mini map quite a lot. The fact that the dense center of the graph is much smaller than Alhuth's indicates that they are probably using the space bar a lot while moving around. This kind of graph is much closer to ideal. If I had to guess, I would say that Pandahh has been playing the game for longer than Alhuth, and probably pays at a much higher ELO.
I used IOGraphica
the black circles arent where you clicked, but markers of how long your mouse is stationary. if you notice on some of the smaller black circles, there is a ring around it? well, the first stage is a small black dot with a growing ring for every ten seconds where your mouse doesn't move. the full black circle appears and grows after 1 minute, and the shaded black circle is after two minutes (there's only one shaded one, it's at the very top)
It's called IOGraphica , It keeps track of all your mouse movements while you have it on, and the solid circles are just when you leave your mouse IDLE, the longer the bigger the circle. http://iographica.com/
He played League of Legends while running IOGraphica. The lines are his mouse movement and the dots are where he rested his mouse (afaik).
IMO he should have made a screenshot of the game, opened the IOGraphica picture and the screenshot in GIMP/Photoshop and overlayed both.
Clicks aren't represented at all on the resulting image, sadly. I'd prefer if the circles correlated to click frequency in that general area, but they dont.
For anyone who has no idea what they are looking at, IOGraph (Mac/Win) will produce these images based off of your mouse paths (lines) and stops (circles).
I'm really curious about the very specific lines going out at about 4 o'clock from the center in this pic though...what caused that?
I actually used IOGraph http://iographica.com/ to record my mouse movements at work for about an hour. Then I used PhotoPlus to make a negative of it. Then Did some image filter ("Cartoon" I think) then did a Tilt-Shift filter. Pretty cool I guess. PhotoPlus is shareware, but IOGraph is free.
Based on this thread I made a Python script that generates a heatmap based on your cursor position while it's been running:
https://github.com/kittsville/Charsor
I've only had it running for a few minutes at a time so I've no interesting heatmaps just yet.
As expected people have already made more interesting programs to do this, like IOGraphica, but it was fun to start scripting straight away rather than finding out who's already made it.
Check this out! http://iographica.com It records the path of your mouse and where/how long your mouse stops. After running it for hour or so it creates really cool images.
This also reminds me of the 80/20 rule, that for many things 80 percent of it is the result of only 20 percent. 80 percent of where your cursor goes is usually 20 percent of your whole screen. (the program helps illustrate this.) It also works for 80 percent of where you walk makes up 20 percent of your floor. Of course its not always true, but I find it fascinating anyway.
Razer Synapse, you need a razer mouse specifically to do something exactly like this but programs like iographica do similar stuff http://iographica.com/ its pretty cool to mess around with but not practical past that
I honestly have no idea if this works within games, but it might be an alternative if folks want to try their own.
edit - looks like you can set it to do a color map instead of just a dot size map as well and you can overlay the map on a screenshot it will take of the desktop (again, don't know if it works in game and can't test because I'm at work)
It's called an IOGraph, you can get started fairly easily here - http://iographica.com/
You literally just run it, click once, and you're recording. Forget about it, come back to it later and amazingly enough it tracked everything pixel-perfectly.
There is a software that trace your mouse movements and counts your clicks I believe but I don't know what it is called.
EDIT: found it http://iographica.com/ EDIT2: It doesn't count mouse clicks in fact, sorry, but lot of other software do that easily.
Recorded with software from IOGraphica, it's pretty cool.
EDIT: This is what my UI looks like, so you can sort of see how the mouse movements correlate. http://i.imgur.com/tmFoR.jpg
By the way, the link to IOGraph. It runs in the background so it's a nifty little tool to see your play style, like seen here, AP offtank Soraka for a game and here, AP offtank Orianna for two games.
I used IOGraphica. The circles represent the mouse standing still.
I'm looking into seeing if there is a way to track the mouse clicks instead of stillness, since there isn't really any reason to see where you didn't move in a game where you are almost always moving.
Mlike /u/MMMaus mmistyped, mmausotron mcounts myour mclicks.
IOgraph makes interesting graph(ics) of your usage. Keycounter counts everything, but the results aren't as easy to access.
This was done with a program named IOGraphica, and was recorded over 3.6 hours. I used the color mode to make it stand out. Lines represent mouse movement and circles and dots represent time the mouse has spent in a location.
What?: I was browsing the interwebs recently and I stumbled upon this piece of software called IOGraphica - an unobtrusive mouse tracking software which produces some really beautiful results. I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of activity produces what kind of image. (The larger circles are where the mouse has been most predominantly.)
HOW?: You can download IOGraphica here. It's really unobtrusive and doesn't require an installation- why not leave it running while you work and check out the results? They're often quite beautiful and gives you an insight into what your work looks like on a more abstract level.
I just thought it'd be an interesting project. If you do decide to try it out, PM me with a link to where I can download it and add it to the album! It'd be awesome- in my opinion- to see a side-by-side of all kinds of work.
Thanks,
-T
Game: League of Legends, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends
Tool: IOGraphica, http://iographica.com/
What does the picture show?
The picture is showing my mouse movements during the course of the game which lasted roughly 45 minutes. This was my first time using IOGraphica so I'm not entirely sure what's what but I think the circles and dots are clicks and concentration of clicks while the lines are raw movements, colours might be indicative of direction of travel.
I play the game with a free camera which means my character (champion) can move without the camera moving which means I was often (A lot more than I though) swiping the mouse to the sides, top, bottom and corners to move the camera around.
The reason for the concentration of clicks in the bottom corner is due to the in game minimap which I click on to get the camera to it quickly or to 'ping' a certain area from afar.
for your pc, there is a little program that tracks the movement of your mouse. It tracks lines (mouse movement), and dark circles (stationary positions).
ioGraph
An example (4 hours of photoshop)
2^nd example (1 hour of gaming - the reason it is circled around the middle is due to the mouse being centred (like CoD), a game like civ5 or WoW won't have this)
Its a program called IOGraphica and what it does, is it basically records your mouse movements and draws lines. The circles, I believe, represent pauses (which can be turned on and off in the options menu).
IOGraph. This is a really weak submission though. Calling this art is stretching even my liberal definition of what I consider artistic. This program is really only interesting on a few occasions over a much longer period of time. Here's something a redditor whipped up, as you can see the program can also be used as a single line sketch tool. Here's some normal usage from another WOW playing Reddit user. On top of the low quality of the post here, he couldn't even be arsed to crop out his screen capture properly. Try r/pics next time, see how well it does there.
24 minutes of CSDM on Counter-Strike 1.6
Larger dots are probably due to map changes.
I don't know if this helps, but IOGraphica tracks your cursor/mouse movements, clicks, and creates a circle that grows over time when the cursor is dormant. Here's a map of my work over a day.
I was playing FTB at the time, That is the reason for the circles at the top right and bottom (circles are formed when you click in that place a lot.) I played for 1 hour and this is the outcome :D EDIT: To accomplish this I used IOGraphica. You can get it yourself Here It free :D
Using IOGraphica to record mouse movement (lives) and pauses (circles).
The > pattern in the first map was created from running a script that committed the files in my local project repository to my localhost Web server directory so I could treat the updated code.
The second map has clustering on the right screen where my map extent was located. My left screen held attribute tables, file directories, and test exports, which utilized quicker, broad mouse movement.
I'm assuming you used a program like IOGraphica?
My issue with some of these is that there are no representation of clicks or other inputs, just mouse movement.
It is still super cool though! I have one of 1 day's work as my wallpaper.
It's a software that draws a line wherever you move your mouse in the screen and black dots are clicks(I think). I went bounty hunting for an hour and recorded it and that's what you see up there^. If you want to download the software, this is the link
It's a free program by the name of IOGraphica. If you go on their website, you'll be able to download the program. There's options to do it in black and white or in color, and to my knowledge, it supports Mac, Windows, and Linux. : )
The entire hour was spent tearing downtown apart, so I can put new main roads in the center, they now span most of the city, even going past the low-density residential, once I did it, no more demands of Industry, Residential, and now my Business district will have businesses stop running out of customers, sometimes its just traffic.
Made using IOGraphica over a 5 hour period, mostly opening and reading tabs I guess. Some of the clicks seem weird especially the large ones on the left, cant really think of something located there. http://iographica.com/
Your facing isn't really (usually) as important as a DPS/tank. I use WSAD (strafe, not turn) for 90% of my movement while I'm actively healing and ran iographica to figure out what part of the screen I liked to "grab" to turn my character and just set my raid frames as close as possible to it. =D
There are still times when I have to use my mouse hand to move in between Clique-ing raid frames (like when I have to run a specific place because I got a debuff) but they're few and far between and I'm still able to slightly redirect my character during globals.
there is a program you could use to track while ingame called http://iographica.com/ however I don't think it's in realtime and it's defiantly not something you would want on stream but maybe you could make a imgur album or something fro viewers to look at :P.
I will have a think about this as it is defiantly intresting
The program I used is called IOGraphica
I discovered it in the comments of this thread.
Credit should go to u/bodondo for suggesting it.
The program I used is called IOGraphica
I discovered it in the comments of this thread.
Credit should go to u/bodondo for suggesting it.
The image is of this game (Thanatos): https://account.hirezstudios.com/smitegame/match-details.aspx?match=40996716
The program used is called IOGraph. It can be obtained here for free: http://iographica.com/
I was using the program...mousepath. Java program. Download it. On the bottom I was checking on the mousepath program to see if it looked awesome yet, and µTorrent. I also have a Dolphin emulator next to there. but most games I used the desktop. I played a bunch of FPS's (COD, don't really adore the series but I casually play them from time to time) some Condemned:CO, Minecraft for a while, LOTS of Half-Life 2 because that game is fucking amazing. Amnesia, Fallout:NV, Halo, those games mostly.
Sorry for the cliché picture. A couple of friends suggested that I post this since it is a little different than most of the other mouse-pathing examples out there. This is obviously from several games, and I only used the mouse tracking while in game. Also I feel like the circles that represent idle time are unneeded, and by removing them it clears a lot of clutter.
And for anyone new to these pictures, here is the program that I used, IOGraph.
The program is IOGraph.
The black dots are from the queue, which had 3 dodges... The stationary mouse produces dots relative to the time it's been there (kinda like what happens when you leave an ink pen for a while in paper)
This will record your mouse movement when activated but that's all I've truly got and I'm only going off the title because halfway through I read the text but did the work. I really hope this will help you in some way to record the way your mouse patterns are and best of luck on finding the program you're wanting.
i remember jmtb02 using while making and testing games to optimise placement of stuff but cant remember if it was his development or not
edit: searched his archives and found it, its called iographica and you can get it here