Yi Jing

[mrlegowatch]

Hi,

I wanted to share with you a new iPhone and iPod touch App, Yi Jing - Book of Changes, which I just released through iTunes Store, and am including the press release below. Information can be found here:

www.flatearthstudio.com/Apps

I am seeking permission from authors of translations and interpretations to include their text in this new App. If you are an I Ching text author, or if you would like to see a particular author's text in this app, feel free to contact me. For more details on that, please visit:

www.flatearthstudio.com/Apps/Contact.html

Thank you,

- Brian

---- (my press release) ----

Yi Jing, the Book of Changes, is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. The definitive mobile version of Yi Jing, or I Ching, the Book of Changes, done the way it was meant to be experienced. One of the oldest books written has been re-crafted to take advantage of the unique features of your mobile device. One single App contains all of the features you would expect to use with Yi Jing, including a question oracle, an integrated journal, and book text in multiple translations and interpretations.

Ask questions:
* Enter a question or phrase
* Toss coins by shaking
* Or use manual line input
* Automatically saves questions with results in a journal

Manage a journal:
* Browse saved questions by date
* Search by keyword
* View Present, Changes (lines) and Future Hexagram text
* Add your own notes
* Mail journal entries to yourself or someone else

Browse the book:
* Choose from multiple language translations/interpretations
* Includes Chinese, German (Wilhelm), and English
* Original Chinese characters and Pinyin phonetics
* King Wen Hexagram numbers are indicated for easy lookup
* Trigram descriptions and attributes are included
* Zoom in on a Hexagram's component Trigrams
* Zoom in on a Hexagram's Ruling Lines with description
* Jump to opposite, inverse and mutual Hexagrams

Other key features:
* Straightforward and elegant interface design
* A Settings option to represent coin heads as Yin
* A Settings option to cast coins with Yarrow stalk probabilities, where changing Yang is more likely, and changing Yin is less likely

Supported Languages:
* US English, German, Chinese

Supported Devices:
* All iPhone and 2nd-Gen iPod Touch devices

Pricing and Availability:
Yi Jing is available for only $2.99 (USD) through the Apple App Store. Please contact us for interview and/or commentary.

 

[lynng]

Excellent work!

 

[fkegan]

Hi Brian,
If I could figure out your contact page, I would have emailed you directly.

I have a Taoist Yi translation I made with Gia-Fu Feng in 1974 and copyrighted which might be of interest to you. http://www.stars-n-dice.com/gia-futext.html

I also have worked out a gestalt perspective upon the Yi which explains the meaning of the trigrams and hexagrams independent of any language or translated text, solely in terms of the line sequence as matrix and the Yang lines as focus within that (Yin) Matrix.
http://www.stars-n-dice.com/fluxtome.html

Also sketches or slogans for oracle interpretation originally developed for my Oracle Book and paper form Oracle Blank for use with an early Applesoft BASIC Yi oracle casting and interpreting program: http://www.stars-n-dice.com/yioracle.html

Also an additional interpretation tool corresponding the 360 lines of hexagrams 3-62 to the 360 Sabian Symbols of Marc Edmund Jones http://www.stars-n-dice.com/sabiansymbols.html

And more generally, the explanation of the meaning of the 64 numbered hexagrams of the King Wen Sequence from traditional Pythagorean philosophical and numeric concepts:
http://www.stars-n-dice.com/tetraktys.html

Frank R. Kegan
fkegan@aol.com

 

[hilary]

Frank, you can send Brian a private message by clicking his name above his post.

By the way, he's also looking for translations in languages other than English.