water over fire (hexagram 63)
#Hexagram #Fire #Water #Abstract #Texture #Symbolic #IChing #Geometric #Metallic #Layers #Fluid #Blue #Gold #Silver #Glowing
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion
on actual stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/water-over-fire-hexagram-63-eris-and-ai.html
Another workshop done and glad I got a chance to introduce colleagues to the I Ching hexagrams as an example for #BottomUpDesign and as system for constructing/composing higher level concepts/meanings from just a small set of fundamental archetypes (in the I Ching there're only 8 fundamental trigrams)... It's been hugely influential and a guiding principle for my own work & design philosophy (incl. for most of my #OpenSource projects) and I keep finding ever new uses for applying this approach, here to devise a composable classification system, eventually allowing us to define more complex concepts... In world defined by #TopDownThinking, going the opposite way and showing people the benefits/flexibility is sometimes/oftentimes _very_ hard, but to me unquestionably more powerful...
Ps. Also reminded again of the whole Seed technology and essence/function (aka "ti-yong") contrast/discussion/subplots in Stephenson's Diamond Age... Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence...
The Hexagram of Solomon
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/09/17/the-hexagram-of-solomon/
“This is the Form of the Hexagram of Solomon, the figure whereof is to be made on parchment of a calf’s skin, and worn at the skirt of thy white vestment, and covered with a cloth of fine linen white and pure, the which is to be shown unto the Spirits when they do appear, […]
« True joy, therefore, rests on firmness and strength within, manifesting itself outwardly as yielding and gentle. »
― Hexagram #58 from the I Ching
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#quotes #IChing #joy #TheJoyous #hexagram #strength #gentleness