Gifs may be best known as a format for eminently shareable memes, drawn from films, TV shows, and YouTube videos and shared around the Web as bite-size reactions to every possible situation. But in the past few years, a few creators have raised them to the level of art form. And some of those artists appear to have gone deep down the psychedelic rabbit hole, because their colorful, ever-looping creations speak the visual language known by every tripper.

One such gif artist is Hexeosis, who has been producing animations at the intersection of mathematics and psychedelia since 2013. Have a peek at these mesmerizing slices of hyperspace, and be sure to check out more of the artist’s work on the Hexeosis website.

 

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Turns out you don’t even need color to make a psychedelic landscape. Feels a bit like looking up towards the steeple of a living temple .

 

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Is it just me or are we inside a neon pinball machine from the 1980s? Or a blacklight poster brought to life?

 

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This one reminds me of peacock feathers, or like a cross between Native American art motifs and a sci-fi video game from the distant future.

 

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Endless square corners beckon into an infinite distance. It’s like the golden child of a cannabis leaf and the Mandelbrot set.

 

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Enamored with these geometric worlds? Check out HX-01 – a 37-minute, full HD video for sale in the Hexiosis store. The artist describes it as “a journey in and out of forms and patterns, mandalas and psychedelic landscapes. Colorful calm moments, energetic dynamic sequences and thought-provoking, mind bending constructions woven together into an overall seamless, 100% animated sequence, timed to music and soundscapes.”

Now I wonder how that would look with a dab of high quality cannabis?

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