Unified Pattern — Pair of two — YIN + YANG mutant, hexagram 2 (Shi, The Army — King Wen no. 7)
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 Shi, The Army. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Pair of two — YIN + 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 | broken | YANG mutant | 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 diagonal, a half turn.
Hexagram 2 (King Wen no. 7) — The Army
Upper trigram ☷ Kun (The Receptive, the Earth); lower trigram ☵ Kan (The Abysmal, Water).
Image
Within the Earth, Water lies hidden: the image of the army. Strength exists, but does not display itself — it holds itself ready, invisible, disciplined beneath a calm surface. This is the figure of contained power, one that needs no show to be real. Thus the noble one increases his people through tolerant generosity: true authority is never imposed through displayed force, but built through constancy and restraint.
Judgement — Cadence
Collective discipline falls into step, like a marching troop. No scattered force is worth an organized one: this line says that true power is never a single brilliant gesture, but a patiently maintained order, where each knows his place and the movement of the whole outweighs individual impulse.
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 − 2 = 61). 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 + YANG mutant.
