--- title: "T_128, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_128 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_128 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_128). Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year. ## Recorded - **Date:** 2026.03.22, day 84 - **Size:** 70 × 140 cm - **Paper:** S6, Qing Yi half-raw - **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:** 6 - **Form:** 2 - **Tonal depth:** 2 - **Layering:** 2.2 - **Composition:** 2 - **Material and surface:** 2 - **Ink cover:** 71% - **Dark share:** 44% - **Tonal steps:** 6 - **Flaws named by the reads:** other 8, water stain 4 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. ## Peter's own rating - **Rating:** 5 Peter's rating is his own eye, not the engine's, and he never gives a 10. > “There is always something that can be done better.” Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02 ## Older engine - **V7:** 8 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_128] ![T_128, tone-stretched] ![T_128, classed by brightness] 71% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 6 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: 0.060 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, agreeing on 4 of 5 qualities. Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. Where reads differ, they differ by one rung; close calls resolve down. 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 3 ORDERED 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2.2 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 “An energetic sheet like R2. The translucent rectangles are legibly layered and a fluent arc leads the eye, but the dark wedges are bulky and flat and the bottom right is crowded. The surface has minor creases and mottling.” Form · BUILT Left arc stroke tapers fluently to its hooked point; the right black bar and bottom dark wedges are bulky, slab-like fills with stiff rectangular ends. WEAKEST Blunt dark slab bottom centre-left, filled-in wedge STRONGEST Curved hooked stroke sweeping left to centre Tonal depth · MODELLED Grey slabs show grain and graded density, and the top-right mass bands well; the bottom black wedges stay mostly uniform inside. Modulation 0.060 with six tonal steps. WEAKEST Bottom dark masses largely flat inside STRONGEST Right grey mass with graded vertical banding Layering · ORDERED Pale slabs, then mid-grey rectangles, then black strokes and spatter. Overlaps stay translucent and you can read the order across the centre and right. WEAKEST Bottom-right overlaps thicken toward heavy dark STRONGEST Translucent grey rectangles stacked under black strokes Composition · WORKING Diagonal flow from the left arc through spatter into the right masses; the open top-left paper is shaped by the spray. Bottom right is jammed with stacked blocks. WEAKEST Crowded bottom-right cluster of overlapping slabs STRONGEST Diagonal arc carrying eye from left to right Material and surface · SOUND Ink is controlled and spatter is deliberate. Crease lines run through the lower-left greys and there is mild cloudy mottling in the top-right wash, both minor. WEAKEST Cloudy mottling inside top-right grey mass STRONGEST Dry-brush spatter and grainy grey wash edges FLAWS ## 5 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 5 distinct places, 12 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), 5 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 14 edge segments, 29% crisp, 43% soft or bloomed, 29% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 6 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 6.0. 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 2.04 (2.0 + 2.0 + 2.2 + 2.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.08 1 + 2 × 2.04 → RATING 6.0 5 + 2.086 × (5.08 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.03.22 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-03-22)