Unified Pattern — Bases — YANG mutant, hexagram 5 (Ming Yi, Darkening of the Light — King Wen no. 36)
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 Ming Yi, Darkening of the Light. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Bases — YANG mutant, 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 | 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 has every symmetry of the square: both axes, the diagonal, the quarter turn and the half turn.
Hexagram 5 (King Wen no. 36) — Darkening of the Light
Upper trigram ☷ Kun (The Receptive, the Earth); lower trigram ☲ Li (That Which Clings, Fire).
Image
Light descends into the Earth: the image of darkening. What should shine finds itself buried, forced to veil its own brightness in order to survive intact. This is the figure of clarity that must, for a time, conceal itself to endure. Thus the noble one leads the multitude by veiling his own clarity, while remaining lucid within: there are eras when showing one's full light would be a mistake — wisdom then lies in remaining just, in silence.
Judgement — Trial
Advancing beneath a light deliberately veiled. It is not a matter of extinguishing one's own clarity, but of knowing how to contain it when circumstances make its full brightness dangerous. This line teaches the discipline of one who continues to act rightly, even when no one can yet see 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 − 5 = 58). 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 mutant.
