Colour distortions - PsychonautWiki

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


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


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!