Do Not Touch

[RevRaptor]

So I found this cool crowd sourced music vid.

http://donottouch.org/

The Dutch rock band target="blank">Light Light unveiled a crowdsourced music video for their song "Kilo," which tracks viewers mouse cursor paths and adds them to the video with each play.

And this gave me an idea, seeing as I don't use a mouse, I thought it would be fun seeing how well my trackball could keep up with the pack. As It turns out I faired pretty well.

Of course I expected that result seeing as trackballs are faster than Mice for a well trained user.

Makes me wonder how a gamepad would do or a stylus on a writing tablet or even naked fingers on a touch pad, touch screen etc.
so who wants to try using their preferred control method and lets us know how they did (do try to be honest)


And before anyone berates me for liking trackballs over mice, this is from the wiki:

Spoiler

Computer gamers have been able to successfully use trackballs in most modern computer games, including FPS, RPG, and RTS genres, with any slight loss of speed compensated for with an increase in precision. Many trackball gamers are competent at "throwing" their cursor rapidly across the screen, by spinning the trackball, enabling (with practice) much faster motion than can be achieved with a ball-less mouse and arm motion. However, many gamers are deterred by the time it takes to 'get used to' the different style of hand control that a trackball requires. Trackballs have also been regarded as excellent complements to analog joysticks, as pioneered by the Assassin 3D 1996 trackball with joystick pass-through capability. This combination provides for two-hand aiming and a high accuracy and consistency replacement for the traditional mouse and keyboard combo generally used on first-person shooter games.

I have my reasons for preferring my trackball as I'm sure you have reasons for using your mouse

 

[DoPo]

That was an interesting video. Certainly very engaging. The beginning was a bit hard to follow with the sheer number of pointers blotting out the dot but it got better. There were some very sweet moments, like the piano and the guitar. I liked it.