User:Ssstephen/prototype/20231113

rodent trace ornamentation

a few weeks ago i made a script that saves my mouse actions to a text file. and by made I mean i pressed, among other buttons, ctrl+c and ctrl+v.

from pynput.mouse import Listener
import logging

logging.basicConfig(filename="mouse_log.txt", level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s: %(message)s')

def on_move(x, y):
    logging.info("Mouse moved to ({0}, {1})".format(x, y))

def on_click(x, y, button, pressed):
    if pressed:
        logging.info('Mouse clicked at ({0}, {1}) with {2}'.format(x, y, button))

def on_scroll(x, y, dx, dy):
    logging.info('Mouse scrolled at ({0}, {1})({2}, {3})'.format(x, y, dx, dy))

with Listener(on_move=on_move, on_click=on_click, on_scroll=on_scroll) as listener:
    listener.join()

today I want to send that data to the plotter instead in a language it understands. i want to do this as a way of ornamenting and documenting the work that happens through the mouse or trackpad. pen plotters are often used for presentations: it is about finding what is between the past and the future. i want to try not to focus on the cartesian coordinates in the data but they might be useful. the data looks kind of like this:

2023-10-25 12:17:36,329: Mouse moved to (1816, 799)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,337: Mouse moved to (1814, 799)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,345: Mouse moved to (1812, 799)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,353: Mouse moved to (1809, 800)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,361: Mouse moved to (1807, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,369: Mouse moved to (1805, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,376: Mouse moved to (1803, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,385: Mouse moved to (1800, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,393: Mouse moved to (1799, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,401: Mouse moved to (1798, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:36,553: Mouse clicked at (1798, 801) with Button.left
2023-10-25 12:17:36,729: Mouse clicked at (1798, 801) with Button.left
2023-10-25 12:17:37,440: Mouse moved to (1798, 801)
2023-10-25 12:17:37,953: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:37,969: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:37,977: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:37,993: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:38,009: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:38,033: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:38,040: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:38,057: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)
2023-10-25 12:17:38,065: Mouse scrolled at (1798, 801)(0, -1)

set lost to true

the data being collected in the script that i can see:

• something happened (listener)
• it happened now (asctime)
• by something, it was either a click, move or scroll
• it happened somewhere xy (this is presented as if it's two pieces of information, weird)
• if it was a click, it involved a particular button (strange my trackpad does not have buttons)
• if it was a scroll it moved to another relative position dxdy#

how to track and dance with the work done by the rodent? how long has it been since you last did something? the longer its been, the further you move. the direction isnt important yet.