T_313
The work as shown. Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year.
Recorded
- Date
- 2026.05.24, day 147
- Size
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- S10, Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu bark, Exhibition Edition
- Inks
- MB4, MB5, MB6, MC
- Phase
- P3 The Floor Rises
- Shown on the site
- yes (V23 rating of 5.0 or higher)
- Early storage triage
- SHP: save, has potential (Peter's early system, since retired)
Measured · V23 (v23.8)
- V23 rating
- 6.8
- Form
- 2.6
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 2
- Composition
- 3
- Material and surface
- 1.6
- Ink cover
- 50%
- Dark share
- 37%
- Tonal steps
- 6
- Flaws named by the reads
- bloom 5, water stain 5, other 3
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 9
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 8
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.
6 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: 0.055 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
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, IN ITS OWN WORDS
“A strong single wave gesture that carries across the sheet well and uses its empty paper. The heavy, flat black core, black largely covering the grey passes and a grey bleed beside the dark mass hold it near ordinary.”
Main arc follows brush travel with clean inner wall and tapering right tail; left dark mass is heavy and slab-filled, edges ragged with dissolved grey drips below.
WEAKEST Bulky black mass in left arc, filled rather than drawn
STRONGEST Arc's inner edge and tapering tail to right
Modulation 0.055 and six tonal steps; outer grey sweeps and tail show banding and grain, but left black core is largely uniform in colour view.
WEAKEST Core of left black mass reads near-flat
STRONGEST Grey outer arcs and modelled right tail
Grey wash arcs, black main stroke, spatter and pink drop are distinct passes; overlaps readable at top left, but black largely covers greys rather than building through them.
WEAKEST Black core covers earlier grey passes
STRONGEST Translucent grey sweeps under black at upper left
One continuous wave crosses the full width; large empty lower centre is shaped by the arc's curl; pink accent anchors the hollow, though lower-left area busy.
WEAKEST Lower-left grey drips and pink cluster slightly cluttered
STRONGEST Sweeping arc carrying eye left to lower right
Cloudy grey bleed beside the dark mass at the arc's inner tip and dripping grey puddles lower left visible in colour view; faint brownish paper stain bottom centre.
WEAKEST Cloudy grey bloom at inner tip of arc
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain and spatter along upper edge
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, 13 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), 6 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 15 edge segments, 40% crisp, 7% soft or bloomed, 53% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
6 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
1 major flaw: appliedThe rating cannot exceed 4.
lowest 1.6A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 6.8.
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.