T_132
The work as shown. 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
- 63%
- Dark share
- 57%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- bloom 5, water stain 5, mud 3, other 3, tide line 1
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 4.5
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V7
- 7
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.
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.
5 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: 0.049 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, one answer.
Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps.
READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS
“An ordinary sheet. The layered diagonal bands give it movement and some legible overlaps, but the bulky, cloudy dark mass in the lower right is weighed down by blooms and fused passes, which pulls the sheet toward R1.”
Diagonal bands from centre-left to lower-centre read as travelled strokes; the right dark slab and lower-left mass are bulky and partly blob-like.
WEAKEST Bulky dark slab at right, stiff rectangle
STRONGEST Diagonal arcing bands crossing the centre
Centre bands show stepped density and grain; right block has streaks; lower-right mass is murky. Modulation 0.049 just above the flat threshold.
WEAKEST Lower-right dark mass, cloudy and fairly uniform
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent bands in centre
Grey slabs underlie darker diagonals with legible overlaps in centre; at lower right the passes fuse into one dark mass and order is lost.
WEAKEST Lower-right where passes merge into dark
STRONGEST Stacked translucent bands at centre
Diagonal movement rises to the right block; top paper is shaped by the top-left band. Lower half is jammed with dark, bottom-right dead and heavy.
WEAKEST Heavy lower-right quadrant crowds the frame
STRONGEST Upward diagonal thrust from lower-left to right block
Lower-right and lower-centre masses carry mottled cloudy patches and bleed marks visible in colour view; pale blotch inside lower-left mass; fold creases.
WEAKEST Cloudy blotched wash in lower-right dark mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush feathered edge at right of block
7 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 7 distinct places, 17 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.
Measured from the 16-bit master.
The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 2 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 20 edge segments, 55% crisp, 35% soft or bloomed, 10% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
5 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
2 major flaws: appliedThe rating cannot exceed 4.
lowest 1.0A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 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.