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


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


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!