Unified Pattern — Bases — YANG, hexagram 7 (Tai, Peace — King Wen no. 11)
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 Tai, Peace. 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 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | broken | YANG mutant | 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 7 (King Wen no. 11) — Peace
Upper trigram ☷ Kun (The Receptive, the Earth); lower trigram ☰ Qian (The Creative, Heaven).
Image
Heaven and Earth unite: the image of peace. What should, by nature, remain separate — high and low — meets here and communicates freely, with no obstacle between them. This is the figure of accomplished harmony, where each force finds its complement rather than its adversary. Thus the sovereign shapes the way of Heaven and Earth and comes to the aid of all beings: peace is not the absence of movement, but exchange become fluid between forces that answer one another.
Judgement — Alliance
Heaven and Earth meet and exchange freely. When what is above consents to descend and what is below consents to rise, communication becomes total and fruitful. This line teaches that lasting prosperity is always born of this reciprocal exchange — never of a single imposed direction, always of a meeting where each gives and receives in turn.
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 − 7 = 56). 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.
