Unified Pattern — Pair of two — YIN mutant + YANG mutant, hexagram 6 (Sheng, Pushing Upward — King Wen no. 46)
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 Sheng, Pushing Upward. 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.
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 | broken | YANG mutant | 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 has every symmetry of the square: both axes, the diagonal, the quarter turn and the half turn.
Hexagram 6 (King Wen no. 46) — Pushing Upward
Upper trigram ☷ Kun (The Receptive, the Earth); lower trigram ☴ Xun (The Gentle, Wind).
Image
Within the Earth, wood grows: the image of pushing upward. The seed, unseen beneath the surface, patiently pushes toward the light without ever skipping a stage — a growth slow but unstoppable. This is the figure of ascent earned through constancy. Thus the noble one, yielding to virtue, accumulates the small to reach what is high and great: nothing that truly grows skips a step, everything is built layer upon layer.
Judgement — Growth
To approach and to grow are a single vertical gesture. There is no real separation between drawing near one's goal and growing toward it — the two movements are one, as the growing stem is already, in seed, the tree to come. This line teaches the continuity between the small present gesture and the great future result.
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 − 6 = 57). 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.
