Method and apparatus for chance controlled formation of a symbol
OwnerDaniel Katzinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for successively determining each line of a trigram or hexagram used in consulting the I-Ching. Indistinguishable magnets, preferably bar magnets, are selected at random and brought into proximity, allowing the magnetic poles of the magnets, so juxtaposed, to exhibit attraction or repulsion. States of the lines of the trigram or hexagram as broken or unbroken are assigned to each observed magnetic interaction. The lines so determined are visually displayed as a group to form the I-Ching hexagram.
Claims46
A method for determining by chance the state for each of a plurality of lines having more than one possible state, comprising the steps of:
- (a) inducing a magnetic interaction between two randomly selected magnetic poles;
- (b) assigning to said magnetic interaction a predetermined one of the possible states for a line;
- (c) obtaining a visual representation of a line in accordance with said assigned state;
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- (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) until the state of each line is visually apparent.
A method for determining by chance the state for each of a plurality of lines having more than one possible state, comprising the steps of:
- (a) representing the Yin-yang symbol as a plurality of substantially equal shaped sectors;
- (b) randomly selecting one of said sectors;
- (c) assigning a predetermined one of the possible states for a line to said selected sector;
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- (d) repeating steps (b)-(c) until the state of each line is obtained.
A method for determining by chance the state for each of a plurality of lines having more than one possible state, comprising the steps of:
- (a) inducing a magnetic interaction between at least a pair of separate randomly selected magnetic poles;
- (b) assigning to each said magnetic interaction a predetermined one of the possible states for a line;
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- (c) obtaining a visual representation of a line in accordance with each said assigned state.
Apparatus for determining by chance the state for each of a plurality of lines having more than one possible state, comprising:
- means for inducing a magnetic interaction between a pair of separate randomly selected magnetic poles;
- means for visibly representing said magnetic interaction as one of said possible states for a line;
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- means for recording said represented state for a line.
Apparatus for determining by chance the state for each of a plurality of lines having more than one possible state, comprising:
- means for representing a random magnetic interaction between a pair of separate magnetic poles as one of said possible states for a line;
- and
- means for visibly recording said represented state for a line.
Apparatus for determining by chance the state for each of a plurality of lines having more than one possible state, comprising:
- means for representing the Yin-yang symbol as a plurality of substantially equal shaped sectors;
- means for randomly selecting one of said sectors;
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- means for visibly recording as one of the possible states for a line the portion of the Yin-yang symbol represented by said selected sector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.