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The nuclear forest

The full dynamics of the hu gua

Choose a hexagram and follow its nuclear arrows to the attractor where it lands.

The symmetries experiment summarises the dynamics of the nuclear hexagram; here it is whole. Every hexagram points to its nuclear one: 64 arrows that collapse fast. The image of the first application is 16 hexagrams (the classical nuclear ones); that of the second, 4. Everything ends in 3 attractors: 2 fixed points and a cycle of 2 (4 attractor hexagrams), with basins of 16, 16 and 32 and a maximum fall of 2 steps.

64 → 16 → 4
images of the iterated map
3
attractors (2 fixed points and a cycle of 2)
16 · 16 · 32
basins of attraction
2
maximum depth of fall
cycle of 2 · Wèi Jì ⇄ Jì Jì
basin 32
fixed point · Kūn
basin 16
fixed point · Qián
basin 16

dotted ring: they fall in 1 step · outer ring: they fall in 2 · the hoop marks the attractors

The 16 classical nuclear hexagrams (the first image)

Only these 16 hexagrams are somebody's nuclear one. The 4 marked ones form in turn the second image: the heart of the collapse.