Guidance from an expert: Professor Li Heng-Lih

[sparhawk]

While Li advocates classical texts, he has demystified them and turned them into practical applications to use in daily life. “I-Ching is logical and scientific. It’s not a subject of superstition or religion.” For this reason the cards are going global, with their eventual translation into English, Japanese and Korean.

(http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/1/19/lifefocus/16577700&sec=lifefocus)

[lightofreason]

The use of cards with coloured images will elicit emotional resonance. He should not draw a card, he should display them all and if the colourings are correct, one card will resonate with the subject's current state - they can pick the 'best fit' based on their feelings for it.


Shuffling the cards is akin to randomising and then drawing one is another level of randomising. If he worked off resonance he would get similar results to the Emotional IC in eliciting the subject's emotional interpretation of a situation.

Chris.

[sparhawk]

Have you designed such a card deck, Chris? I mean, with the "correct" coloring.

L

[lightofreason]

Have you designed such a card deck, Chris? I mean, with the "correct" coloring.

L

no. There is a 'visual I Ching' on the market that uses cards and colours but at the trigram level.

Mapping colours to the binary ordering means mapping the spectrum to such. Use of the Luscher Colour Test data would help in getting the best fit with emotions etc.

Since white light is maximum reflection and no light maximum absorption so the spectrum would cover 62 hexagrams with yang = white. yin = black. OR we focus only on harmonics and so ultra violet (yang) to infrared (yin).

OR we form TWO threads, one covering constructive interference (RGB) and so a white bias and the other covering a destructive interference (CYM + B) and so a black bias.

Chris.

[sparhawk]

Since white light is maximum reflection and no light maximum absorption so the spectrum would cover 62 hexagrams with yang = white. yin = black. OR we focus only on harmonics and so ultra violet (yang) to infrared (yin).

OR we form TWO threads, one covering constructive interference (RGB) and so a white bias and the other covering a destructive interference (CYM + B) and so a black bias.

Cool! Finally something I can understand at the first reading... :D Being a photographer and a creative Photoshop user I can relate with the example of color systems. There is another color scheme that seems interesting in this context: Lab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space)

The three parameters in the model represent the lightness of the color (L*, L*=0 yields black and L*=100 indicates white), its position between magenta and green (a*, negative values indicate green while positive values indicate magenta) and its position between yellow and blue (b*, negative values indicate blue and positive values indicate yellow).

L