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


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


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!