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Principal Terms Used in Ecological Optics
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1	environment (of animals)	as distinguished from the physical world, consists of a medium, substances, and the surfaces that separate the substances from the medium	Thoughts on this topic.
2	medium (for terrestrial animals)	Air. Air is insubstantial and thus permits locomotion. Locomotion is controlled by the information in the medium.	Thoughts on this topic.
3	information	provided by sound-fields, by odor-fields, and above all by illumination. Information, in this terminology, is not transmitted but is simply available.	Thoughts on this topic.
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Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

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Principal Terms Used in Ecological Optics

Create a gameworld space and then evolve rules based on its affordances

Describe the gameworld affordances

Classify the arrogances by category

Affordance rules recorded

Board-centric rules-centric hybrid