Colour distortions

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.

 

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

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


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

 

 

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

 

Issue

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

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


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!