La Livrée d'Hermès

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La Livrée d'Hermès — a treatise in 111 plates

La Livrée d'Hermès is a book of philosophy and mathematics, freely available at the link below. It is centered on the construction of magic squares and their transcription into Jacquard weaving.

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The 64 hexagramsThe 64 hexagrams of the Yi Jing: judgement, image, six lines, trigrams, magic square and patterns for each. The 256 unified patternsEvery 12×12 Jacquard pattern of the system, one page each — cell, tiling, recolourings and data. LexiconTen key notions for understanding La Livrée d'Hermès. The interactive boardCast the coins or pick a square: the 64 hexagrams in binary order, with their tiling. Opens in English. SearchFull-text search across the book's pages, the hexagrams, the patterns and the lexicon.

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Arithmogeometry is the construction of magic squares by a geometric rather than arithmetic method: each number is laid down as a figure, derived from the ansate cross, and the whole transcribes directly into Jacquard weave. The term is proposed by Anibal Edelberto Amiot in La Livrée d'Hermès (2026), cited by its DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22722485; the author is identified by Wikidata and ORCID.

A first article is available in English: Hanuman and Harlequin, two messengers. The other articles, the tools and the pages about the author are in French: articles, tools, about the author.

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WallpapersFull-screen textile wallpapers, sound-reactive or at an adjustable meditative pace. Create a patternCompose your own textile patterns from the 60 natures of the Yi King. Two-colour patternsCompose a 12×12 cell, six levels, each with its own family and tint. Two-colour patterns v2The second diagonal split (YA/AY), vocabulary and half-shift statuses — alongside the v1 tool. EncoderGeometric steganographic encoding by double referent, ansate cross and Jacquard. PrintingDraw and download print-ready layers. CymaticsThe tiling whose spatial frequency comes closest to the sound you make.

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HexagramsThe 64 hexagrams of the Yi King: judgment, trigrams and magic square for each. Magic quadricoloreThe 64 hexagram patterns, customisable and downloadable in high resolution. Three-colour galleryUnified patterns, generated by tint mixing — select a motif to see its tiling. Two-colour gallery142 two-colour patterns generated by the axes and closed on the cube — mesh, tiling, export. SVG patternsDownload the print layers in 4 categories of trait combinations, as SVG.

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The treatiseThe treatise in four languages, the hexagrams and the lexicon. LexiconTen key notions for understanding La Livrée d'Hermès. ArticlesReflections and research around La Livrée d'Hermès.

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