--- title: "T_303, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_303 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_303 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_303). Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year. ## Recorded - **Date:** 2026.05.14, day 137 - **Size:** 70 × 180 cm - **Paper:** S3, Tanxi Jing Pi, raw - **Inks:** MB4, MB5, MB6 - **Phase:** P2 The Switch - **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:** 77% - **Dark share:** 21% - **Tonal steps:** 4 - **Flaws named by the reads:** bloom 5, water stain 5, other 5 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:** 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_303] ![T_303, tone-stretched] ![T_303, classed by brightness] 77% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 4 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: 0.048 (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 “A confident dark arc and a pale sweep give the sheet direction, but the big grey slab is bulky and mostly flat, and blooms mar its left edge. An ordinary sheet, near R2.” Form · BUILT Dark arcing stroke follows brush travel with split dry-brush bristle edges; large grey wash is a heavy slab with a ragged, undefined left wall. WEAKEST Bulky grey slab spanning left and centre STRONGEST Dark curved stroke with dry-brush tail, right-centre Tonal depth · MODELLED Dark mass shows bristle streaks and grading toward its lower tail (modulation 0.048, barely above flat); big grey wash is mostly even, with some vertical banding at left. WEAKEST Grey slab interior largely flat mid-grey STRONGEST Dark stroke's streaked, graded interior Layering · LEGIBLE Three passes: a grey wash, a dark stroke over it and a light arc at right. The overlaps can be read but build little depth; four tonal steps. WEAKEST Dark stroke covers grey without much translucency STRONGEST Pale grey arc legible over paper, right Composition · WORKING A clear left-to-right sweep ending in the dark head and the arc. Ink covers 77% of the sheet, so the empty paper is mostly the top-right and bottom-right corners; the left reads as dense and static. WEAKEST Heavy grey slab crowds left half STRONGEST Sweep from dark stroke into right arc Material and surface · FLAWED The left edge of the grey slab shows blotchy blooms and cloudy pooling that are visible in the colour view, with scattered drips nearby; the grey wash interior is slightly cloudy. WEAKEST Mottled, bloomed left edge of grey wash STRONGEST Dry-brush bristle texture in dark stroke 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, 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: 2 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 5 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 18 edge segments, 39% crisp, 50% soft or bloomed, 11% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 4 steps: not applied RULE 2 A major flaw Material held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw. 4 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)[2026.05.14 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-05-14)