T_314
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
- SA: save, archive (Peter's early system, since retired)
Measured · V23 (v23.8)
- V23 rating
- 5.8
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 2
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 82%
- Dark share
- 66%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- ring 5, other 6
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 7
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 6
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.
5 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: 0.045 (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
“The right arc is fluent, striated and modelled inside, but the central black slab is blunt and flat, and the bottom-left mass is crowded and cropped. A sound, ordinary sheet in the R3 idiom, sitting nearer R2.”
Right arc follows the brush's travel with concentric striations; the central square slab and left arc's upper edge are bulky and blunt, closer to filled blocks.
WEAKEST Central square block, bulky slab with stiff edges
STRONGEST Right arc with hooked inner end
Right arc shows arcs and stepped density; left arc has a soft graded swirl; central black block is mostly uniform. Dark modulation 0.0453 sits right at the flat threshold.
WEAKEST Central dark block interior largely flat
STRONGEST Right arc's concentric banding and dry streaks
Pale grey outer arcs, mid-grey left arc and the black passes stay readable where they overlap; the central block mostly hides what lies under it rather than building depth.
WEAKEST Dark block covers earlier passes beneath it
STRONGEST Translucent grey outer ring under right arc
Two arcs make an S-movement and shape the paper at top centre and bottom right, but the heavy black at bottom left is crowded and cropped. Ink covers 82% of the sheet.
WEAKEST Lower-left mass jammed against bottom edge
STRONGEST S-shaped sweep linking left arc to right
Ink is controlled and the dry-brush grain gives the right arc its form; small drip rings and spots sit at the left edge, away from the main masses. Red drops are deliberate.
WEAKEST Small drip rings near left edge wash
STRONGEST Dry-brush striations in right arc
4 distinct places, 0 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, 11 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.
Measured from the 16-bit master.
The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 3 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 17 edge segments, 59% crisp, 41% soft or bloomed, 0% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
5 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
none namedThe rating cannot exceed 4.
lowest 2.0A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 5.8.
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.