How to Create Art with Your Mouse Cursor Paths

There's a new way to create some interesting look art. Using IOGraphica's IOGraph you can track your mouse movements on your computer. It tracks your cursor and when your cursor is sitting in one spot it starts creating a circle. The larger the circle, the longer your mouse was idle. What exactly does this "art" look like? Here is what I had after a few hours of some webdesign.

Updates

In their newest version, IOGraph has the ability to display the actions that occur on dual screens, rather than the older versions which tracked the movements on both screens, but, would only display one the tracks on one. What's really fun to do is track your movements while using just one program, such as Photoshop.

In the above screenshot, the creator of IOGraph, Anatoly Zenkov, shows us his mouse movements after working in Photoshop for a few hours. In this latest edition, rather than just showing your mousetracks on a white background, you can capture your screen background so you can see just where your mouse movements were in Photoshop (or any other program).

However, if you closed the application and only saved the mouse tracks available import it into Photoshop. Paste it in a new layer and set the Layer Mode to "Multiply." You should have a screenshot of your program of choice below this layer.

Try it Out!

In order to run this application, you do not install it on your computer, you just open it and it will run, close it and it stops, no installation needed. You can download it for Mac, as well as, Windows and even Linux!

If you like your mouse tracks enough, you can get them framed:

Author Bio: Dan Killam is a Graduate Student studying Digital Forensics at the University of Central Florida.