Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
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+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
AltVis: without wanting to be mean - and as another dedicated amateur and San Francisco native - after visiting your kickstarter page, I really have no clue what you're doing??? It seems like it might have something to do with the Yi and using math? And it has something to do with colorful graphics and pictures?.... I would love to open up discussions with other dedicated amateurs ....
AltVis, before digging in, I just looked at your kickstarter page and I see you've met you funding goal, so what I say here is probably moot at this point- as people have already fully funded you, either because they (unlike me) understand what you are doing, or they are just generous of spirit.I would like to build personalized oracular charts for clients ... What would such a chart look like? I have some ideas, but I need co-conspirators and collaborators to help me put those ideas into practice ....
A note on MATH:
I am not a mathematician. I don't 'do' math. I'm a trained visual artist, who stopped studying anything to do with numbers after whizzing through geometry in high school. I love geometry. I do not love math. Nevertheless, the hexagram notation does have binary-numeric properties. And neverthenevertheless, the hexagrams were never used as numbers, or to do mathematics. In fact, this method of visual analysis that I have developed is meant to sort through all of the numerological (understanding numbers metaphorically rather than mathematically) contradictions that the hexagram notation has been used to symbolize, traditionally. The purpose of this method is to represent any traditional topic or theme from the study of the Yijing in terms of geometric logic and analogy: that is, visually, not mathematically (so, no equations, no algebra), and through self-aware analogy, rather than implied or assumed analogy. In other words, the method deconstructs analogy as another dimension of imagery. Please rest assured that the binary-numeric property, as paradoxical as it may at first appear, is a function of geometric logic, and not of mathematics. Although lots of people will do mathematics with anything, and seem to worship physics . . .which seems to worship, or to reduce everything else to math. Let's NOT attempt to define metaphysics, at least not here.
The above diagram is a general key to the binary-numeric exponential values of the lines of the hexagrams, and shows the relationship between the original notation and the 1st & 2nd order dimensional exponents of the augmented notation.
Below, are several instances of a compact format diagram, focused on the 2nd order exponent - that is, from the original notation, to contour (1st order), and color (2nd order). Included as secondary, emergent information are indices such as the trigrams, the structural tetrad, 'Correctness', 'Correspondence', hexagram 'Flower' (as per Hacker), the canonical sequence number, two separate binary notations and correlated binary sequence numbers, and two interpretive titles, as well as bagua-house designation, elemental index, and seasonal correlate. Most of these secondary indices are traditional and well-known, but difficult to compute and re-compute for each hexagram, each time; some are new to this work; but the advantage to this work is that I can indicate all of them in one place, at one time using this technique of augmented notation. It's actually very useful for comparative purposes, as demonstrated below. Part of this work will be to indicate which geometric indices correlate to which emergent, secondary properties of the hexagrams, in a verbal description that is equally compact or as economical as this diagrammatic notation. But is most definitely can be done.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).