--- title: "T_149, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_149 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_149 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_149). 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 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_149] ![T_149, tone-stretched] ![T_149, classed by brightness] 80% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 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 ## 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 “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.” Form · BUILT 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 Tonal depth · MODELLED 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 Layering · LEGIBLE 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 Composition · WORKING 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 Material and surface · FLAWED 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 FLAWS ## 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. GEOMETRY ## 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. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 7 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)[2026.03.27 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-03-27)