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


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


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!