Color issues solved!

A quick update on the issues with auto white balance in my previous post. The more I thought about it, the more I suspected there was a problem with the camera module itself. I drove over to my local MicroCenter and they exchanged it for me. Gotta love that local advantage! I tested it with default settings out on the porch again to replicate the conditions, and my hunch was right. There was likely some manufacturing defect with the camera module -- the new one looks normal:

No more alien worlds!

Now, I can skip all the headache of conversions.