La Livrée d'Hermès

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Solid and equal bands

Group 1 of 6 · 4 animations

The plain ground, and bands of equal width: two, three or four. Nothing loads before a click, and only one animation plays at a time. You can preview each animation at another speed or in other colours.

Collection P

solid · 32 patterns · 26 s

Animation of collection P: a frame taken from the video

Collection B2

two bands · 32 patterns · 26 s · no. 1 in publication order

Animation of collection B2: a frame taken from the video

Collection B3

three bands · 32 patterns · 26 s

Animation of collection B3: a frame taken from the video

Collection B4

four bands · 32 patterns · 26 s

Animation of collection B4: a frame taken from the video
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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 images 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. 360 layersDraw 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 — grain, tiling, export. SVG patternsDownload the print layers in 4 categories of trait combinations, as SVG.

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The treatiseThe treatise and its translated editions, 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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