I’ve something very cool to share with all of you today – if not all that practical. It’s known as IOGraph, and it’s an app that lets you create something that resembles modern art simply by using your PC.
Developed by a fine fellow named Anatoly Zenkov; the application works by actively tracking your mouse movements. It translates mouse motion into lines, and creates a circle of ever-increasing size when you hold your mouse still.
It’s fairly simple to use – all you do is launch it, then click to start tracking. The app actually shows the image on its main screen, and you can choose to save or upload it whenever you like. Clicking the window again will pause the recording, and you can press the refresh button next to the timer to restart the tracking image.
Above, you can see a mousepath image that I created while writing articles. Pretty bland, right? Apparently, I don’t move my mouse all that much. If you’re doing a lot of writing over the course of a day, you might not wind up with anything particularly complex. If, however, you’er doing something like playing a game or browsing the Internet; you’ll end up with something more like the image shown below.
Anyway, here’s an FAQ for those of you who are interested in learning more about the app, as well as the developer website and download page. There’s a version for both Mac and PC. Sorry, nothing for Linux quite yet.
via Flowing Data
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