Psychedelic Aesthetic

Creates a dynamic image with vivid contrast undulating contours and repeating patterns.

Visual traits

• intense color
• fluid forms
• repeating patterns

Expected changes

• Color contrast is more likely to intensify
• Contours and patterns are more likely to repeat fluidly

Definition

It creates an impression of perceptual flux through intense color fluid forms and repeating patterns. It does not specify a particular person work place or story.

In more detail

It layers vivid contrast undulating contours and repeating patterns to make a dynamic image. Subject and composition remain separate choices.

Includes

• Abstract visual treatment using intense color and fluid form

Excludes

• A particular work or person
• Depictions of drug use
• Recreation of a particular period or culture

What this does not imply

• A particular work or person
• Drug use
• Recreation of a particular period or culture

Variability

Because the evidence is a general media source, color and pattern intensity may vary.

Usage

• Coordinate movement across color form and pattern
• Specify subject and scene separately

Distinguish similar expressions

• Specify named works people and periods separately

Typical uses

• Add a vivid fluid impression
• Shape image movement while retaining the subject

Possible failure modes

• Color and patterns obscure the subject
• Abstraction becomes unintentionally uniform