At rest it is wuji — undivided, without distinction. Push it, and yin and yang are born.
Resting drift: real center-of-pressure from the Santos & Duarte (2016) human-balance dataset (CC0). Symbol construction & cosmology after Zhou Dunyi, Taijitu shuo.
Experiment 01 · interactive · field notes
Can the wuji→taiji transition — undivided stillness breaking into yin and yang — be felt rather than read?
At rest the symbol is wuji — one undivided field, no distinction yet. Your push does two things at once: it gives birth to the division (yin and yang appear together, never one without the other) and it flows the conserved whole toward the leading half. The two shares always sum to 100 — a conserved quantity being distributed, not created. Push harder and the symmetry breaks, like a ball rolling off the crest of a hill: the wuji → taiji arc, in a single gesture.
The symbol is drawn by SVG construction after Zhou Dunyi’s Taijitu shuo, and the yin/yang split with its “ball on the hill” is a spontaneous-symmetry-breaking reading of that cosmology. Even at rest the field drifts along a real quiet-standing center-of-pressure trace (Santos & Duarte 2016, CC0) — stillness is measurably not static.