䷖ Splitting Apart

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There are other significant methods which have not (yet) been implemented, in particular the “Ancient“ (Neo-Confucian reconstruction) and “Modified” methods of casting yarrow stalks described by Huang and some of the more idiosyncratic variants that have appeared during the 20th Century CE.

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• virtual string of beads
• cheezburger [1],[2]

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Hagbard Celine's gigantic computer, FUCKUP (First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic-Ultramicro-
Programmer) was basically a rather sophisticated form of the standard self-programming algorithmic
logic machine of the time; the name was one of his whimsies. FUCKUP's real claim to uniqueness
was a programmed stochastic process whereby it could "throw" an I Ching hexagram, reading' a
random open circuit as a broken (yin) line and a random closed circuit as a full (yang) line until six
such "lines" were round. Consulting its memory banks, where the whole tradition of I Ching
interpretation was stored, and then cross-checking its current scannings of that day's political,
economic, meteorological, astrological, astronomical, and technological eccentricities, it would
provide a reading of the hexagram which, to Hagbard's mind, combined the best of the scientific and
occult methods for spotting oncoming trends

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Patented methods (via Biroco)

• US Patent 3603593 (1969) – ‘I Ching fortune-telling game’
• US Patent 3598414 (1971) – ‘Method and apparatus for determining and studying philosophical and oracle responses’
• US Patent 4506893 (1985) – ‘Method of playing a game in which playing pieces are inverted’
• US Patent 4953864 (1990) – ‘Method and apparatus for chance controlled formation of a symbol’
• US Patent 4962930 (1990) – ‘Method and apparatus for casting an I Ching Hexagram’
• US Patent D313625 (1991) – ‘Display device for illustrating scientific codes, and corresponding hexagrams’
• US Patent 5203564 (1993) – ‘Methodology board for selecting gaming numbers’
• US Patent 5651682 (1997) – ‘Sticks and method for consulting Chinese book of changes’
• French Patent FR2738498 (A1) (1997) – ‘Reader for displaying an I Ching hexagram’
• US Patent 5856928 (1999) – ‘Gene and protein representation, characterization and interpretation process’
• US Patent 5957452 (1999) – ‘Dice-like apparatus and method for consulting the I Ching’
• Chinese Patent CN2358510 (Y) (2000) – ‘Yijing magnetic intelligent magic ball’
• US Patent D443317 (2001) – ‘I Ching top’
• German Patent WO0155996 (A1) (2001) – ‘Device for interpreting an oracle according to I Ching’
• US Patent 6702583 (2004) – ‘Yang-yin emblem’
• US Patent 6802662 (2004) – ‘Non-linear ergonomic keyboard’
• US Patent 7445009 (2008) – ‘Spatial field effect physical therapy device
• UK Patent GB2445611 (2008) – ‘Linear slide rule for decoding symbolic data’

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another implementation of the yarrow stalk method at kliph/i-ching@369fc6b