See today's earlier posts Ode and True Grid (continued) and, in the latter's
context of tic-tac-toe war games — Balance, from Halloween 2005 —
“An asymmetrical balance is sought since it possesses more movement.
This is achieved by the imaginary plotting of the character
upon a nine-fold square, invented by some ingenious writer of the Tang dynasty.
If the square were divided in half or in four, the result would be symmetrical,
but the nine-fold square permits balanced asymmetry."
— Paraphrase of a passage in Chiang Yee's Chinese Calligraphy
