The Ecological Approach to the Visual （生态视觉方法）.pdf

Vol. 11,pp. 227-235. 0024-094X/78/0701-0227$02.00/0 Leonardo, in GreatBritain. ? PressLtd. 1978. Printed Pergamon THE APPROACH TO THE VISUAL ECOLOGICAL PERCEPTION OF PICTURES* James J. Gibson** I Having rejected the picture theory of natural perception completed from a part You can present line-drawings or we can make a start on picture perception. To see the silhouettes, closed outlines or open, nonsense figures or environment is to extract information from the ambient meaningful ones, regular forms or irregularones, simple array of light. What is it, then, to see a picture of or complex forms, scribblesor depictions, nameless blobs something? The information in ambient light does not or specific representations, hen-tracks or alphabetic consist of forms and colors but of invariants.Is it implied characters,cursive letters or printed letters, upright forms that the information in a picture does not consist of forms or inverted forms, good forms or bad forms. All these and colors but of invariants?That sounds very odd, for variations and many others have been tried out. The we suppose that a picture is entirely composed of forms results are disappointing. After hundreds of experiments and colors. nothing decisive has emerged about visual perception, The kind of vision we get from pictures is harder to only perplexities. Wherein lies the meaning? Does a understan