I had on odd mental experience (dream?) of using a regular optical computer mouse to manipulate an image of a mouse on my screen, which was in turn used to manipulate the mouse of a smaller image, etc. etc.
There being no particular purpose for this image, I sought to create one, and decided it might be an interesting challenge of manual dexterity to have the n^th mouse accomplish some useful activity.-- csea, Nov 20 2009 [CNLohr] doing approximately this in hardware using an ESP8285 https://www.youtube...watch?v=FPBzOaLbWhMWhat this idea reminded me of [notexactly, Oct 11 2016] [m-f-d] genetic engineering: mouse plant.-- shudderprose, Nov 20 2009 Presumably, after not too many iterations, there would be a one-pixel cursor being manipulated around a 4-pixel screen.
Perhaps there could be a slight time-lag in the response of each one?-- pocmloc, Nov 20 2009 //Perhaps there could be a slight time-lag in the response of each one?//
That's just cruel.-- shudderprose, Nov 20 2009 You could use the 'n'th mouse to manipulate an object-orientated drag-and-drop GUI builder tool to create a program that simulates a screen-based pointer that actually looks like a mouse which can be used to manipulate a GUI builder tool with which you could build an application which simulates a mouse being controlled by the simulated mouse on the level above and then use that simulation to build a lower-level simulation......-- 8th of 7, Nov 20 2009 ...D|||||||...D-- rcarty, Nov 20 2009 You could introduce randomized shake or attenuation on some of the levels to add to the challenge (I really want to have a go at this!) [+]
(BTW, this is being typed using Remote Desktop via VNC all via 4 IP proxies)-- Dub, Nov 21 2009 I've seen remote desktop software for android where you drag around a virtual mouse on the touch screen. I reckon if you linked up a real mouse to the android device this would get you one level of mouse recursion-- caspian, Oct 12 2016 random, halfbakery