--- title: "T_130, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_130 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_130 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_130). 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:** 5 - **Form:** 2 - **Tonal depth:** 2 - **Layering:** 2 - **Composition:** 2 - **Material and surface:** 1 - **Ink cover:** 69% - **Dark share:** 42% - **Tonal steps:** 6 - **Flaws named by the reads:** bloom 5, water stain 4, other 4, tide line 1 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:** 7 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_130] ![T_130, tone-stretched] ![T_130, classed by brightness] 69% 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: 0.066 (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 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1.0 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “An R2-type gestural sheet with translucent planes, a strong central wedge and spatter. The diagonal flow works and the layers stay legible. The cloudy, blotchy bottom-right black mass weakens form, tone and surface.” Form · BUILT Upper-left trapezoid and central wedge are coherent, walls hold; bottom-right mass dissolves into cloud and the left trapezoid stays slab-like, as in R2. WEAKEST Bottom-right dark mass, soft-edged and shapeless STRONGEST Central dark wedge with dry-brush trailing edge Tonal depth · MODELLED Left trapezoid and central wedge show graded density and grain; bottom-right black is cloudy and blotchy, not structured tone. Six tonal steps, modulation 0.066. WEAKEST Bottom-right mass: cloudy, mottled rather than modelled STRONGEST Upper-left trapezoid graded grey into black base Layering · LEGIBLE Pale translucent planes top-right and left stay legible under darker wedges and spatter; two to three passes, sequence not clearly built across the sheet. WEAKEST Spatter and drybrush laid over greys without order STRONGEST Translucent grey planes overlapping at right edge Composition · WORKING Diagonal movement from upper left to right carries the eye; bottom-centre spike and bottom-right mass anchor it, but lower-left paper is inert and right side busy. WEAKEST Empty lower-left paper, leftover rather than shaped STRONGEST Diagonal sweep from left trapezoid through centre wedge Material and surface · FLAWED Bottom-right black mass is mottled with cloudy pale blooms visible in colour view; drip spots dot the upper-left trapezoid grey. Dry-brush elsewhere is controlled. WEAKEST Cloudy blotchy interior of bottom-right dark mass STRONGEST Dry-brush grain on central wedge's trailing edge FLAWS ## 4 distinct places, 1 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, 14 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. A major flaw holds Material and surface at rung 1. GEOMETRY ## Measured from the 16-bit master. The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 8 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 19% crisp, 19% soft or bloomed, 63% 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. 5 major flaws: applied RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 1.0 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 rating 5.0. 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 1.80 (2.0 + 2.0 + 2.0 + 2.0 + 1.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 4.60 1 + 2 × 1.80 → RATING 5.0 5 + 2.086 × (4.60 − 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)