h a l f b a k e r yI think this would be a great thing to not do.
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Placing the mouse over a piece of paper and gripping a felt-tipped pen between the index and middle fingers, I clicked with my middle and ring fingers while moving and dragging the mouse over the paper as I used the computer and tried not to be conscious of my hand movements. After 15 minutes and a cramped
hand, the abstract sketch seen below was produced.
A penholder to be clamped to the mouse could be fabricated or background software could create mouse movement paintings to be printed or to make constantly changing desktop wallpaper/screensaver. Carpal tunnel syndrome analysis of the squiggles might outrival Rorschach ink blot tests in usefulness.
mouse sketch
http://www.geocitie...sketchingmice.html?
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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you are going to meet a handsome stranger, be travelling over water and come into some money but beware of the three legged dog. |
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Couldn't you do this throught the computer itself? The hardware has a sampling rate of 100 times per second - would this be enough for a good quality image? |
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["Background software" - didn't read that bit, thanks.] |
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That's what I meant by "background software". If the mouse moves at four inches per second, 25 dots per inch could be recorded, not much worse than the linked 30 dpi jpeg. |
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farmer time to get it into the Turner prize, go for a magnum opus, a week at work. |
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Perusing "A Saturday Morning at
the Halfbakery" actually turned out
to be a more fulfilling and
enjoyable experience than the
prior 15 minutes I spent in the
Halfbakery. |
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OK, if you need me, I'll be gazing
at the sketch. |
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