App Profile: IChing: Classic Book of Changes

The_Soundsmith

Rating: 3/5

First off, I should say this is a potentially great app for I Ching users/students. The displays are readable and clear, navigation is simple and obvious, and there are some expansions (tetragrams) that are interesting to contemplate. The concept is exactly what I had hoped for, but I have found a few things that require attention. 1: Minor point: the coins do not give me a visual indication if they were head or tail up. Simple fix, brighten up the coins and perhaps make them larger. (As a suggestion for update, consider a way to allow us to work with virtual yarrow stalks as well?) But the big issue: The red area at the top of the screen tells me that, for example: "Hexagram 38 changes to 10. Six on place 5." I assume this is accurate (remember, I can't see the coins clearly...) But the body of the text of "The Image", then reads - always - "No moving lines for the current hexagram. The following commentary does not apply." And then there is no way to get to hexagram 10 without searching in a differemt part of the app. I don't know if there is a mechanism to display the second figure or not, as I cannot get it to admit there is one. This is a process, hex 1 is point A, which through the elements of the moving lines (line 5,) changes (The Book of, remember?) into Hex 2, in my example, Hexagram 10. Hopefully this is merely a programming error, not a design limitation. Please fix this, and make it a 5-star, great app...

BubbaJonBoy

Rating: 3/5

Runs fine - no issues. My biggest beef as a student is that I take issue with the coin toss method the author uses. The results appears to be opposite what I would expect. He has the lines superimposed on the coins so it's not a mistaken head tails identification. Example three lines are old yang. Apparently these are used as old yin - the opposite. If you get two lines and one broken - 2 yang 1 yin the result should be young yang but instead it's like he uses the "odd man out" and uses the yin. Other than that I love the suggestion of a log.

DoggyDawg88

Rating: 3/5

Thank you for removing the badge! However with the latest update, the app is not displaying correctly. When I go to the "casting" page, the 3 coins are all the way at the top of the screen, halfway out of the frame. The resulting hexagram page does not center correctly - instead, it centers on the middle of the text, so the beginning cannot be seen.