Visualization of the Relationship between Void and Eye Movement Scan Paths in Shan Shui Paintings

In this article, a study is conducted to explore the role of void in viewing. Void is a feature of Chinese art expression, but it is often ignored or lacks some empirical evidence to prove that void is also a specific element. This study proposes a method to analyze and visualize eye movement data, which can help us find useful and valuable knowledge from much eye movement information. The study results found that eye movement will cause many paths and repeated saccades in the void of the picture. Such findings are different from past heat maps of visualizing eye-tracking information. This allows us to find different interaction patterns between attention and void, confirming that the void is no longer a cutscene but a focal.