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Unified Pattern — Pair of two — YIN mutant + YANG mutant, 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 Pair of two — YIN mutant + 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.

Tricolour — three independent colours

The pattern's three colour classes, set independently — change one, the other two stay put.

Cell
Tiling
Monochrome — one tint

One tint, read in light and dark — a luminance reading, not three colours with two greyed out.

Cell
Tiling

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:

LevelLineGrid readColour 1 (violet)Colour 2 (magenta)Colour 3 (orange)
1solidYANG888
2brokenYANG mutant888
3solidYANG888
4solidYANG888
5brokenYANG mutant888
6brokenYANG mutant888
Whole cell484848

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 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, Pair of two — YIN mutant + YANG mutant.

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