Unified Pattern — Pair of two — YIN + YANG mutant, hexagram 26 (Kun, Oppression — King Wen no. 47)
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 Kun, Oppression. 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 | 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 diagonal, a half turn.
Hexagram 26 (King Wen no. 47) — Oppression
Upper trigram ☱ Dui (The Joyous, the Lake); lower trigram ☵ Kan (The Abysmal, Water).
Image
The Lake is without water: the image of oppression. What should nourish and sustain has dried up, leaving behind a glaring lack where abundance was expected. This is the figure of exhaustion that tests the true nature of the one who endures it. Thus the noble one stakes his life to accomplish his purpose: it is precisely in lack that what one truly values is revealed, to the point of being ready to risk everything for it.
Judgement — Repair
Nothing is restored without first consenting to lack. There is no true rebirth without first having passed through the real experience of deprivation. This line says that oppression, well endured, is not merely a trial to suffer but a purification that prepares the return of abundance.
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 − 26 = 37). 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.
