ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <HTML> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- A { text-decoration: none; } A:hover { color: #666666; } --> </STYLE> <HEAD> <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <TITLE> I Ching Lights </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#333333 TEXT=#CCCCCC LINK=#999999 VLINK=#666666> <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=1000> <TR> <TD WIDTH=100> &nbsp; </TD> <TD WIDTH=900> <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial" SIZE=7> <P> <B>I Ching Lights</B><P> &nbsp;<P> <table border=0> <tr> <td width=400 align=center> <IMG SRC="./images/iching1.jpg" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300> </td> <td width=50 rowspan=4> &nbsp; </td> <td width=400 align=center> <IMG SRC="./images/iching2.jpg" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center> <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial" SIZE=3> 38. Divergence (}w kuí)<P> </font> </td> <td align=center> <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial" SIZE=3> 47. Exhaustion (ðV kùn)<P> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width=400 align=center> <IMG SRC="./images/iching3.jpg" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300> </td> <td width=400 align=center> <IMG SRC="./images/iching4.jpg" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center> <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial" SIZE=3> 32. Perseverance (F` héng)<P> </font> </td> <td align=center> <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial" SIZE=3> 31. Attraction (¸T xián) <P> </font> </td> </tr> </table> &nbsp;<P> <div id="container"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var s1 = new SWFObject("player.swf","ply","640","480","9","#000000"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s1.addParam('wmode','opaque'); s1.addParam("flashvars","file=./video/iching.f4v&image=./images/still.jpg&skin=overlay.swf&controlbar=over&stretching=fill"); s1.write("container"); </script> <P> &nbsp;<P> <FONT SIZE=3> Electronic divination device. 18 white cold cathode tubes periodically display one of the 64 hexagrams from the I Ching (f“}).<P> The I Ching dates from 400 BC. The text of the I Ching is a set of oracular statements represented by a set of 64 abstract line arrangements called hexagrams (fS guà). Each hexagram is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (;r yáo), where each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the center). With six such lines stacked from bottom to top there are 2<SUP>6</SUP> or 64 possible combinations, and thus 64 hexagrams represented.<P> The King Wen sequence is the traditional (i.e. "classical") sequence of the hexagrams used in most contemporary editions of the I Ching. The King Wen sequence has been shown to contain within it a demonstration of advanced mathematical knowledge.<P> In his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire (1703) Gottfried Leibniz writes that he has found in the hexagrams a base for claiming the universality of the binary numeral system. He takes the layout of the combinatorial exercise found in the hexagrams to represent binary sequences, so that ¦¦¦¦¦¦ would correspond to the binary sequence 000000 and ¦¦¦¦¦| would be 000001, and so forth.<P> The same binary system underlying the ancient and mystical I Ching sequence forms the basis of modern computing.<P> &nbsp;<P> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_ching"> <I>Wikipedia: I Ching</I></A><P> &nbsp;<P> <IMG SRC="./images/kingwen.gif"><P> King Wen sequence &nbsp;<P> &nbsp;<P> &nbsp;<P> &nbsp;<P> </FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>