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


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


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!