Unified Pattern — Pair of two — YANG + YIN mutant, hexagram 25 (Sui, Following — King Wen no. 17)
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 Sui, Following. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Pair of two — YANG + YIN 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 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | solid | YANG | 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 25 (King Wen no. 17) — Following
Upper trigram ☱ Dui (The Joyous, the Lake); lower trigram ☳ Zhen (The Arousing, Thunder).
Image
In the midst of the Lake, Thunder: the image of following. The movement that rumbles in the depths lets itself be carried by what surrounds it rather than forcing its own path — it follows the contour of the lake instead of breaking it. This is the figure of adapting to another's rhythm. Thus the noble one, at dusk, returns home to rest: to follow is not to submit, it is to recognize the moment when action must yield to rest, as day yields to night.
Judgement — Depth
To follow the movement of time requires descending again to dig the source. One cannot follow lastingly without returning, now and then, to what nourishes the movement itself. This line teaches that the truest adaptation is not the most mobile, but the one that knows how to return to its own origin before setting off again.
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 − 25 = 38). 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, Pair of two — YANG + YIN mutant.
