https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11860679/

Many observers see geometric visual hallucinations after taking hallucingens such as LSD, cannabis, mescaline or psilocybin; on viewing bright flickering lights; on waking up or falling asleep; in "near-death" experiences; and in many other syndromes. Kluver organized the images into four groups called form constants:
1. tunnels and funnels
2. spirals
3. lattices - including honeycombs and triangles
4. cowebs.

In most cases, the images are seen in both eyes and move with them. We interpret this to mean that they are generated in the brain. Here, we summarize a theory of their origin in visual cortex (area V1), based on the assumption that the form of the retino-cortical map and the architecture of V1 determine their geometry. (A much longer and more detailed mathematical version has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society). We model V1 as the continuum limit of a lattice of interconnected hypercolumns, each comprising a number of interconnected iso-orientation columns. Based on anatomical evidence, we assume that the lateral connectivity between hypercolumns exhibits symmetries, rendering it invariant under the action of the Euclidean group, composed of reflections and translations in the plane, and a shift-twist action. Using this symmetry, we show that the various patterns of activity that spontaneously emerge when V1's spatially uniform resting state becomes unstable correspond to the form constants when transformed to the visual field using the retino-cortical map. The results are sensitive to the detailed specification of the lateral connectivity and suggest that the cortical mechanisms that generate geometric visual hallucinations are closed related to those used to

process edges,
contours,
surfaces and
textures.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11316482/

Mathematical investigation of the origin of the same visual types described in previous study. Assumption is made that the patterns of connection between retina and striate cortex(V1) - the rhetinocortical map-and-neuronal units