Originally Posted by
Hudson308
The chips in the paint should give some clues. If you can see a layer of chrome or metallic paint under the color, it would be a type of candy. From the picture it looks like a color coat with a pearl coat over the top, which would give the "chameleon" color-shifting effect you're talking about. I've had two framesets done this way, with a solid color powdercoat under a color-shifting pearl powdercoat. The effect is pretty dramatic in bright sunlight!
Okay, from that I take it that what you call candy is what they call cromovelato in Italy - clear coloured paint over chrome.
The changing colour that RubberLegs describes is just how my cromovelato Chesini behaves in different lights - mostly green but blue or even grey in bright sunshine. The colour changing you describe depends, I think, on your changing angle of view - is that right? I've seen a BMW motorcycle like that and a car. A bit like a chambray fabric.