Incoming visual information is continuous flow {visual flow}| {optical flow, vision} {optic flow} that brain can analyze for constancies, gradients, motion, and static properties. As head or body moves, head moves through stationary environment. Optical flow reveals whether one is in motion or not. Optical flow reveals planar surfaces. Optical flow is texture movement across eye as animals move.
Optic flow has a point {focus of expansion} (FOE) {expansion focus} where horizon meets motion-direction line. All visual features seem to come out of this straight-ahead point as observer moves closer, making radial movement pattern {radial expansion} [Gibson, 1966] [Gibson, 1979].
Optic flow has information {tau, optic flow} that signals how long until something hits people {time to collision} (TTC) {collision time}. Tau is ratio between retinal-image size and retinal-image-size expansion rate. Tau is directly proportional to time to collision.
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