T_315
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
- 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
- 1.6
- Layering
- 2.2
- Composition
- 2.2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 69%
- Dark share
- 60%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 5, water stain 6
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 8
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 9
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: 0.040 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, agreeing on 2 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
“This sheet takes up R3's radiating-arc motif but has flatter black cores, stiffer slab blocks at the bottom left and a less resolved layering. The pale centre and the splattered fan tops hold it near ordinary.”
Both fans are coherent arc forms with holding walls; the right fan's curved strokes follow the brush, but the left fan's lower rectangle and squared slabs are stiff.
WEAKEST Blunt rectangular block at bottom left of left fan
STRONGEST Right fan's curved bands following the arc of travel
Dark modulation 0.040, below the flat threshold; the black cores of both fans are uniform inside, and tone changes mainly at band edges. Greys live only in the centre.
WEAKEST Flat black interior of left fan upper block
STRONGEST Pale grey arc banding in central circle
The grey wedges stepping toward the centre and the pale circle overlap legibly; in the black cores later passes mostly cover the earlier ones.
WEAKEST Dark fan cores where later black covers earlier passes
STRONGEST Translucent grey overlaps in the central circle and left fan
The two fans converge on a pale circular centre, and the shaped empty paper above gives direction; the bottom corners are dense and the two halves sit as matching blocks.
WEAKEST Heavy, near-symmetrical dark masses crowding the lower corners
STRONGEST Central pale circle linking the two fans
Ink is controlled, with deliberate splatter at the top edges. The paper is yellowed overall and the centre has slightly cloudy washes, but there is no stain in the dark masses.
WEAKEST Cloudy grey washes in the central circle
STRONGEST Dry-brush splatter and bristle edges on fan tops
3 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 3 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: 6 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 3 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 31 edge segments, 29% crisp, 58% soft or bloomed, 13% 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 1.6A 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.