Unified Pattern — Triple — without YANG, hexagram 28 (Xian, Influence — King Wen no. 31)
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 Xian, Influence. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Triple — without YANG, 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 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | solid | YANG | 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 28 (King Wen no. 31) — Influence
Upper trigram ☱ Dui (The Joyous, the Lake); lower trigram ☶ Gen (Keeping Still, the Mountain).
Image
On the mountain, a Lake: the image of influence. Water rests upon the height, settling into it without forcing it, and it is this mutual receptiveness that lets influence circulate between the two. This is the figure of shared sensitivity, even before words intervene. Thus the noble one welcomes emptiness into himself, that he may receive others: to influence begins always with knowing how to let oneself be touched.
Judgement — Resonance
The subtle emotion of mutual influence, barely perceptible. The deepest bonds between beings are often formed before a single word is spoken, in that quiet register of shared feeling. This line says that the most lasting influence is never the one that imposes itself loudly, but the one that slips, almost unnoticed, between two presences open to each other.
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 − 28 = 35). 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, Triple — without YANG.
