Abstract: A eye movements study on sampling traits for irregular geometric figure recognition was conducted. Ss were 12 university students. The stimuli were 20 irregular geometric figures. The equipment was EyelinkII tracker in the experiment. It was found that, with the task difficulty increasing, the ratio of effective sampling time descended significantly. In poor display condition, the number of fixations reduced significantly and the sacnpaths become significant longer than in good display condition. The interaction between display condition and display style had a significant effect on RT，the number of fixations and the length of scanpaths.

Key words: figures recognition, sampling, eye movements