Pointer Pointer

(pointerpointer.com)

83 points | by surprisetalk 11 days ago ago

8 comments

  • eknkc 3 hours ago

    Since this is old, I assume someone found these photos and then manually selected the pointer location. Maybe used openCV or something like that.. But I'd most likely go with manual.

    There are 700+ images defined in https://pointerpointer.com/new-positions.json and the script finds the closest match to the current mouse pointer.

    • sky2224 an hour ago

      Yeah probably. It likely made it significantly easier given that the images are always super zoomed in, so a single finger pointing covers roughly 6-8 mouse pointer locations (I'm kind of eye-balling it here).

  • JRCharney 3 hours ago

    Can you make a version with cats in it? Like cats jumping at the cursor or trying to catch the cursor with their paws.

    • yapyap an hour ago

      I don’t see why not, go for it

  • pjerem 3 hours ago

    This one is an old one. I still love it, now with nostalgia. I always wondered how they got all those pictures. It looks like there is a recurrent theme tho.

  • SeanAnderson 2 hours ago

    This is apparently from 2012, but I could've sworn it was older than that.

  • atoav 2 hours ago

    I think this was created by the people at the art collective of monochrom.at,

    This is where I have seen this the first time ca. 2006.

    Edit: Now that I searched for it I only found their project ZeigerPointer, where they collect such images, maybe I mixed it up.

  • yapyap an hour ago

    good old web2 fun