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


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


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!