Colour distortions

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There is some discrepancy in the various characteristics of color distortions caused by psychedelic substances, as we only describe one variant (color shifting) which is named ambiguously.

Definitions

  • Shift (move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.)
  • Shifting (changing, especially unpredictably.)

Ambiguity

Though "Shifting" is potentially reasonable, it can give the impression of an element moving position rather than changing in quality. In the following example, "shifting" is used to refer to the misalignment of RGB channels. An experience I have had with a high dose of 2C-C specifically.

Shifting.jpg

We also describe diffraction in an article which appears to represent this quality:

 Caption
Proscaline
2C-D
DOM
Glare.jpgGlare by Anonymous
5-MeO-DiPT
Experience: 200µg 1P-LSD (sublingual) + 12mg CBD - The Vortex of Empathy
25I-NBOH
25I-NBOMe
Psilocybin mushrooms
3C-P
4-HO-MiPT
Experience:LSA (20 HWBR seeds) – A pleasant adventure with a harsh body load
Experience:3 Grams of Mushrooms - Reset on my Life, Experiencing Satori and the Cosmic Perspective
4-HO-MPT
1cP-MiPLA
PRO-LAD
Experience:75 mg - Good tunes feat. Jeb Bush
DET
MPT
DOB
25C-NBOMe
AL-LAD
4-HO-DPT
Allylescaline
Experience: 80mg EPT - Slight improvement
LSM-775
EPT
ETH-LAD
4-AcO-DMT
4-AcO-DET
TMA-2
PARGY-LAD
3C-E
25D-NBOMe
Experience:12 mg AMT - Nicely Surprised
4-AcO-MiPT
1cP-AL-LAD
Experience:5g Mushrooms - Failed attempt at a Terence Mckenna style trip.
25B-NBOH
TMA-6
1P-ETH-LAD
Βk-2C-B
4-HO-DiPT
DOC
Diffraction.jpgDiffraction Shades by capture-life-with-lens.tumblr.com
DOI
25C-NBOH
Experience:2mg 25C-NBOMe - Experimental trip to test personal limits of NBOMes
Psilocin
Experience: 80mg EPT - Bummer
4-HO-EPT
MET
MiPLA
Methallylescaline


There is also a phenomenon called chromatic aberration, caused by distortion of a camera lens, which appears like this:

Chromatic aberration (comparison).jpg

Aberration.gif

Also, as the size of an aperture like the iris increases, diffraction distortions become apparent:

Aperture Sun Flare.jpg

Issue

In our article for color shifting, the images examples we refer to exhibit colors which change in a cyclic nature:

 Caption
25E-NBOH
25I-NBOMe
1cP-LSD
ETH-LAD
Experience:LSA (20 HWBR seeds) – A pleasant adventure with a harsh body load
4-AcO-DET
Experience:300µg LSD - Togetherness and the Silent Dusk
Psilocybin mushrooms
Experience:100ug 1P-LSD - A Fear and loathing into Bliss
2C-T
MiPLA
ΑMT
4-HO-EPT
Bromo-DragonFLY
DOI
2C-T-21
Colour shifting field.jpgField by Anonymous
2C-P
25I-NBOH
DMT
LucytheFairy.gifLucy the Fairy by StingrayZ
Experience:3 Grams of Mushrooms - Reset on my Life, Experiencing Satori and the Cosmic Perspective
LSA
1B-LSD
DOC
5-MeO-DALT
Flowers by Chelsea Morgan.gifFlowers by Chelsea Morgan
4-AcO-MET
1P-ETH-LAD
Experience:170mg 4-AcO-DMT - Recklessness rewarded
TMA-2
PRO-LAD
Experience:2.5g - Swim's first mushroom trip
WcYKq.gifPainting by Anonymous
MiPT
4-HO-DET
Proscaline
Escaline
4-HO-MPT
PARGY-LAD
Amanita muscaria
Mirtazapine
3C-P
LSZ
LSD
2C-I
ALD-52
4-HO-DiPT
4-AcO-DiPT
TMA-6
2C-B-FLY
25C-NBOH
Ayahuasca
25B-NBOH
Garden Painting by Anonymous.jpgGarden painting by Anonymous
2C-C
1cP-MiPLA
2C-E
MPT
DOM
Βk-2C-B
Mescaline
Psilocin
4-HO-DPT
4-AcO-DMT
Efavirenz
1cP-AL-LAD
DPT
DET
Experience:40mg DMT - Second breakthrough
Experience:4x 200ug tabs - You do not need to understand
Ibogaine
25B-NBOMe
DOB
4-HO-MiPT
4-AcO-MiPT
Allylescaline
3C-E
LSM-775
Methallylescaline
5-MeO-DMT
Experience:LSD (230 ug) - An amazing adventure by vikilikepsych
Experience:3.5g psilocybe cubensis - Relinquishing of Material Chains/Fear and Desolation
5-MeO-MiPT
Bufotenin
Gaboxadol
1P-LSD
2C-B
4-HO-MET
2C-D
Experience:Mushrooms and Snuff Films -- Trip Report (3.5 grams)
Experience:150mg MDMA + 20mg 2C-B - I designed it this way myself
Experience:1000 Morning Glory seeds - Rediscovering the Self
5-MeO-DiBF
2C-T-2
MET
1V-LSD
Japanese Maple.jpgJapanese Maple by Anonymous
Experience:BK-2C-B - Various experiences
AL-LAD
2C-T-7
25D-NBOMe
25C-NBOMe
Experience:DXM & DPH in combination
5-MeO-DiPT


Description

Colour shifting can be described as a visual effect in which the colors of various objects (particularly bright or out of place objects) shift and change their appearance through a repeated cycling of varying colors in a strange and fluid motion across their surface. For example, moss on a rock could physically shift from green to red to blue to any other color and then back to green again in the visual style of a smooth and seamless animated loop.

Proposal

I propose that we rename the cycling of colors to one of the following, so that we can also describe other color distortions.

  • Leave as is Colour shifting for historic reasons
  • Colour cycling (move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events.)
  • Colour changing (make or become different.)
  • Please add anything else which might be suitable!

With an alternative name we can then describe the misaligned channels effect as something below.

  • Colour dispersion seems most fitting currently wikipedia
  • Colour shifting (changing, especially unpredictably.)
  • Colour displacement (the action of moving something from its place or position.)
  • Colour misalignment (the incorrect arrangement or position of something in relation to something else.)
  • Please add anything else which might be suitable!