Unified Pattern — Bases — YANG, hexagram 13 (Feng, Abundance — King Wen no. 55)
One of 256 distinct Unified Patterns — a 12×12 Jacquard construction where every cell's colour is read off a single hexagram of the Yi King, hexagram Feng, Abundance. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Bases — YANG, one of the 8 admissible families (out of 15) in the system's classification — see the lexicon for how families are built and admitted.
The pattern's three colour classes, set independently — change one, the other two stay put.
One tint, read in light and dark — a luminance reading, not three colours with two greyed out.
Reading the cell, line by line
The 144 cells of the 12×12 cell fall into six levels of 24 cells, one per line of the hexagram. Where the line is solid (yang), the level takes its colours from the family's YANG grid; where it is broken (yin), from its YANG mutant grid. Count of each colour, level by level:
| Level | Line | Grid read | Colour 1 (violet) | Colour 2 (magenta) | Colour 3 (orange) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 2 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 6 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Whole cell | 48 | 48 | 48 | ||
The three colours are exactly balanced: 48 cells each. The cell is unchanged by reflection in the vertical axis, reflection in the horizontal axis, a half turn.
Hexagram 13 (King Wen no. 55) — Abundance
Upper trigram ☳ Zhen (The Arousing, Thunder); lower trigram ☲ Li (That Which Clings, Fire).
Image
Thunder and Lightning arrive together: the image of abundance. Movement and light reach their full unfolding at once — a moment of total plenitude, rare and necessarily fleeting. This is the figure of a peak that never lasts forever. Thus the noble one settles disputes and carries out punishments: at the height of abundance, clarity of judgment becomes more necessary than ever, for that is also where everything can tip over.
Judgement — Fullness
The hour of full noon, when light casts no more shadow. There exists an instant, at the summit of all plenitude, when nothing remains hidden — but this instant, by its very nature, can only decline afterward. This line teaches us to savor abundance without forgetting it carries its own limit within it.
The full hexagram page: the six lines, its magic square and the other patterns built on it.
Same shape, other colourings
Two involutions leave this motif's shape unchanged and only permute its three tints — verified across every family and every hexagram in the corpus, not just this one: swapping the pairing used to read the hexagram (YANG/YANG-mutant ↔ YIN/YIN-mutant), and taking the hexagram's binary complement (63 − 13 = 50). Toggle them below; the tiling never changes, only the colours do.
The grid itself
The 12×12 layer map and the three colour grids above, in the raw data — human-readable, and machine-readable as JSON.
Show the data
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Neighbouring motifs
The previous and next hexagram within the same family, Bases — YANG.
