{"id":16,"date":"2007-03-18T22:11:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaytoreality.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-03-18T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T22:11:25","slug":"artistic-composition-eyetracking-and-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/18\/artistic-composition-eyetracking-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic Composition &#8211; Eyetracking and Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2007\/03\/15\/artists-look-different\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/262\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a646891cdcd24aaa00b21f54b6f98d04-vart1.jpg\" alt=\"Eyetracking trace over the same image, one is more expansive, the other focuses on the centre of the image\" width=\"500\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of these days I&#8217;ll get my hands onto some eye tracking tools!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2007\/03\/artists_look_different.php\">Cognitive Daily: Artists look different<\/a> discusses research into the differences between the way trained artists and ordinary folks view images.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As someone who works daily with architects, structural engineers, graphic designers and architectural photographers, I&#8217;d love to see how their eye movements differ from the above.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vogt and Magnussen argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vaughan at <a title=\"Mind Hacks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/artists_look_differe.html\">Mind Hacks<\/a> puts it more succinctly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The study concluded that artists spend more time looking at areas of the visual scene that the rest of us pass over as less important.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d call composition. Working with talented visual people, I wonder if eyetracking could reveal their perceptions of good and bad composition, and how they differ by profession.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to see the effect being ascribed to training rather than artistic talent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to think that notions of composition come from some kind of imposed training, even if it is implicit training. My question is, does my brain think it&#8217;s good composition because it appreciates the arrangement, or because it&#8217;s been trained to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of these days I&#8217;ll get my hands onto some eye tracking tools! Cognitive Daily: Artists look different discusses research into the differences between the way trained artists and ordinary folks view images. &nbsp; As someone who works daily with architects, structural engineers, graphic designers and architectural photographers, I&#8217;d love to see how their eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brains-behaviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}