--- title: "T_305, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_305 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_305 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_305). 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:** 1 - **Layering:** 2.2 - **Composition:** 2 - **Material and surface:** 1.8 - **Ink cover:** 79% - **Dark share:** 35% - **Tonal steps:** 2 - **Flaws named by the reads:** water stain 5, other 5, tide line 2 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_305] ![T_305, tone-stretched] ![T_305, classed by brightness] 79% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 2 families of tone. Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Two or fewer: Tonal depth is held at the bottom rung whatever the model reads. A dense sheet of many translucent passes can count low here, so Layering is left to the reads. Life inside the black: 0.050 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, agreeing on 3 of 5 qualities. Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. Where reads differ, they differ by one rung; close calls resolve down. 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 3 ORDERED 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2.2 Composition 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2.0 Material and surface 1 FLAWED 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 1.8 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “A quarter-arc study in the manner of R3: legible layered passes and banded arcs, but crowded, blocky in the centre-right, tonally narrow, and with milky patches inside the central grey mass.” Form · BUILT Left arcs bend fluently with the brush travel; centre-right passes end in squared, slab-like blocks with stiff, stacked terminations. WEAKEST Stacked rectangular slab passes, centre-right, blunt and blocky STRONGEST Large upper arc stroke following the brush's turn Tonal depth · MODELLED Arcs carry bristle banding and grain; tonal_steps 2 and modulation 0.0495, just above flat; the mid-grey rectangles read as one even tone. WEAKEST Centre grey slabs, nearly uniform inside STRONGEST Banded dry-brush striations through the upper arc Layering · ORDERED Several translucent passes: pale under-arc, darker arcs and stepped grey blocks overlapping to the right. The order reads clearly across most of the sheet. WEAKEST Dense overlaps centre-right become hard to separate STRONGEST Translucent stepped rectangles overlapping the arcs, centre Composition · WORKING The arc sweep gives direction from top-left to the right-hand ends, but ink covers 79% of the sheet; the mass is heavy and the right margin is only partly shaped. WEAKEST Crowded centre mass; right paper strip leftover STRONGEST Sweeping arc carrying eye from top to right Material and surface · FLAWED Dry-brush edges are well used, but pale milky patches and a curved scrape mark sit inside the central grey mass, visible in colour; crease lines cross the sheet. WEAKEST Milky cloudy patches inside centre grey slabs STRONGEST Dry-brush grain at stroke ends, right 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, 12 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), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 17 edge segments, 59% crisp, 24% soft or bloomed, 18% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 2 steps: applied RULE 2 A major flaw Material held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw. 1 major flaw: applied RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 1.8 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid Caps the code applied: {"run_id":"T_305","cap_no":1,"read_no":1,"cap_text":"sample 1: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}; {"run_id":"T_305","cap_no":2,"read_no":2,"cap_text":"sample 2: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}; {"run_id":"T_305","cap_no":3,"read_no":3,"cap_text":"sample 3: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}; {"run_id":"T_305","cap_no":4,"read_no":4,"cap_text":"sample 4: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}; {"run_id":"T_305","cap_no":5,"read_no":5,"cap_text":"sample 5: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}. 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 2.00 (2.0 + 2.0 + 2.2 + 2.0 + 1.8) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.00 1 + 2 × 2.00 → RATING 5.8 5 + 2.086 × (5.00 − 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)