These images of the mouse paths recorded whilst someone plays games are strangely beautiful

“I made a mouse track script and just got the colours working, here’s a few examples from different genres of games I’ve recently played” writes Peter3571 over on Reddit.

Wow – and how beautiful they are.

1. FPS Tracks (Overwatch)

2. FPS Heatmap

3. RTS Tracks (Age Of Empires 2)

4. RTS Heatmap

5. Twin Stick Tracks (Alien Swarm)

6. Twin Stick Heatmap

7. General Tracks

8. General Heatmap

• “Interesting that your general tracks map has a sort of loose United States shape, including tornado alley and minus Florida’s panhandle.”, notes Turnowchyk3
• “I don’t know what the internet has done to my imagination, but…. This picture reminds me of an anus :-T”, says Seech111

Source: Reddit