![]() We hope to overcome cultural and language barriers with text mining and interactive data visualization techniques. In a world where we communicate increasingly with images, a modern visual communication design approach may open new avenues of viewing and understanding I-Ching. The original I-Ching is a very “visual” book that is composed of symbols and their meanings. Although there have been many versions of translations, from modern Chinese (ancient Chinese language is known to be extremely concise with many possible interpretations) to western languages, it can be a lifetime endeavor to reveal the linkage among all elements and the sequences of structures in I-Ching. Each hexagram has a name, a brief statement known as the Decision or Judgement, and commentary texts to explain each of its six lines called Yao Text (figure 2).The statements and comments provide a vast set of possible interpretations for I-Ching. The hexagram is composed of upper and lower Trigrams - a set of eight three-line symbols (figure 1). ![]() Then combining the "Four Phases" yields the "Eight Trigrams" (八卦). The Yin and Yang represent the "Two Modes" (两仪),and they can be divided into "Four Phases" (四象). It contains 64 six-line (a combination of solid and broken lines corresponding to Yang Yao and Yin Yao) symbols known as Hexagrams. 1045-256 BCE) as the basis for this project. ![]() ![]() We are using the version formulated in the Zhou dynasty (ca. The main content of I-Ching has evolved throughout history. 2 Components of the main content of I-Ching ![]()
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