--- title: "T_119, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_119 description: "Crucible Year: a continuous year of sumi ink painting on paper by Peter Yuill, begun 29 December 2025." source: generated from the Crucible Year master database --- Archive · full record # T_119 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_119). Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year. ## Recorded - **Date:** 2026.03.19, day 81 - **Size:** 50 × 100 cm - **Paper:** S2, Tanxi half-raw, 3-foot - **Inks:** MB1, MB2, MB3 - **Phase:** P1 Warm-up - **Shown on the site:** yes (V23 rating of 5.0 or higher) - **Early storage triage:** SA: save, archive (Peter's early system, since retired) ## Measured · V23 (v23.8) - **V23 rating:** 5.8 - **Form:** 2 - **Tonal depth:** 2 - **Layering:** 2 - **Composition:** 2 - **Material and surface:** 2 - **Ink cover:** 53% - **Dark share:** 40% - **Tonal steps:** 4 - **Flaws named by the reads:** water stain 5, other 5 The V23 rating runs from 1 to 9, with 5 the middle of this body of work. It is the engine's reading, and the reference the archive is measured against. ## Older engine - **V7:** 9 From an earlier engine (V7). Its scale differs from V23's, so it is only ever compared with other readings by the same engine. ## How the number was made Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.8, on 2026.10.06: measured by code, then read 5 times by Claude Opus 5.5 against three reference paintings (R1 to R3), each read independent of the others. [How the engine works](https://peteryuill.art/method). WHAT THE CODE SEES ## Three views of one sheet. Left, the photograph. Centre, the tone stretch the model is shown beside it: the darkest 45% of tones spread over the whole range, so flat black, banding and stains show. Right, every pixel as the measuring code classes it: cyan black ink, deep teal translucent grey, stone the palest ink, near black bare paper. ![T_119] ![T_119, tone-stretched] ![T_119, classed by brightness] 53% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 4 families of tone. Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Life inside the black: 0.040 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, one answer. Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. READ 1 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2.0 Tonal depth 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2.0 Layering 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2.0 Composition 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2.0 Material and surface 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2.0 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “A gestural sheet in which a black diagonal crosses two arcs, with good dry-brush energy. The slab interiors are flat and the black mostly covers the passes beneath it. Ordinary across all five ladders, closest to R2.” Form · BUILT The grey arc on the right follows the brush's travel. The upper part of the vertical black bar is a stiff rectangle. The left dark arc holds its shape but is bulky. WEAKEST Top of vertical black slab is blunt, rectangular STRONGEST Grey right arc tapering to a point Tonal depth · MODELLED The left arc grades from black down into grainy grey. The vertical black slab is flat inside (dark-interior modulation 0.040 is under the 0.045 flat threshold). The right grey arc is fairly even. WEAKEST Upper black slab interior flat STRONGEST Left arc grading from black to grey wash Layering · LEGIBLE Three passes can be told apart: a pale grey wash, the dark arcs, then the black vertical. Where the black bar crosses the left arc it mostly hides it. WEAKEST Black slab mostly covers the arc beneath STRONGEST Grey arc under the black diagonal crossing Composition · WORKING The black diagonal set against the two arcs makes a strong X-like movement. The empty paper top-left and right is shaped. The lower left is vague. WEAKEST Lower-left grey wash area is vague STRONGEST Diagonal black thrust crossing two arcs Material and surface · SOUND The dry-brush streaks and spatter are lively and controlled. The rectangular pale wash near the lower centre and the cloudy grey lower left are mild but not disruptive. WEAKEST Pale cloudy wash patch lower left STRONGEST Dry-brush streaks dragging from black slab FLAWS ## 4 distinct places, 0 major. Each read must name every flaw and where it is, in a ninth of the sheet. Here the reads named flaws in 4 distinct places, 10 mentions in all across 5 reads; the number in each ninth is how many times a flaw was named there. Reads agreeing on a place strengthen the evidence for one flaw; they do not multiply it. GEOMETRY ## Measured from the 16-bit master. The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 31% crisp, 25% soft or bloomed, 44% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 4 steps: not applied RULE 2 A major flaw Material held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw. none named RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 2.0 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 rating 5.8. Engine v23.8, 5 reads. Fixed arithmetic, the same for every painting; the constants were set on 24 randomly chosen paintings so the median sheet scores 5. The scale is relative to this archive, not to painting in general, and a difference of less than half a point between two paintings is noise. MEAN RUNG 2.00 (2.0 + 2.0 + 2.0 + 2.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.00 1 + 2 × 2.00 → RATING 5.8 5 + 2.086 × (5.00 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.03.19 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-03-19)