T_149
The work as shown. Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year.
Recorded
- Date
- 2026.03.27, day 89
- Size
- 70 × 180 cm
- Paper
- S3, Tanxi Jing Pi, 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
- 80%
- Dark share
- 18%
- Tonal steps
- 7
- Flaws named by the reads
- bloom 2, tide line 5, ring 2, water stain 3, other 3
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.
7 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: 0.053 (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
“Rising diagonal gesture with a decent left black stroke over grey washes, but the right half is a crowded, cloudy mottled field with tide edges. Ordinary across the board, close to R2, and weaker on material.”
Sweeping left stroke and centre-right hooked stroke follow brush travel; the central black mass is a bulky lobed patch whose walls partly dissolve into the grey.
WEAKEST Left-centre black mass, lobed and partly dissolved
STRONGEST Long tapering dark stroke sweeping in from left edge
Seven tonal steps; right mass and lower grey band show grain and streaking; dark interiors modestly modulated (0.053); upper-left grey wedge stays fairly uniform.
WEAKEST Pale grey wash upper left is flat inside
STRONGEST Right mass, grainy mottled greys with dark streaks
Pale grey washes, mid grey sweeps and black strokes sit as distinct passes on left; on the right the overlaps go cloudy and order is harder to read.
WEAKEST Right mass passes blur into mottled texture
STRONGEST Black stroke over translucent grey band, left-centre
Strong left-to-right rising movement with shaped empty paper top left; right half is a dense, undifferentiated grey block covering most of the sheet.
WEAKEST Right half crowded, mottled field without focus
STRONGEST Rising diagonal sweep from lower left to upper right
Right grey mass shows blotchy cloudy mottling and pale tide-line edges visible in colour view; ringed drops top centre; spatter streaks controlled.
WEAKEST Cloudy mottled wash with tide edges, right mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush spatter streaks across right side
3 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 3 distinct places, 15 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: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 9 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 25% crisp, 50% soft or bloomed, 25% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
7 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
5 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.