T_316
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
- 5.3
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 2.2
- Composition
- 2.2
- Material and surface
- 1
- Ink cover
- 79%
- Dark share
- 62%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- ring 5, other 4, mud 1, water stain 3
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 7
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 7
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.
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: 0.067 (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 bold arching composition with a well-shaped white opening and readable passes. The heavy black arcs are flat inside, the left side is crowded and murky, and a pale ring inside the upper black arc pulls Material down.”
The concentric arcs hold their walls and follow the stroke's curve. The left grey rectangles are slab-like, and the lower-left area is untidy and loosely joined.
WEAKEST Blocky grey slab and muddled strokes at left edge
STRONGEST Right outer arc following the brush's sweep
The right arc and upper band show arcing grain and stepped density, with 4 tonal steps. The large central-left black arcs read flat and surface-like in the colour view.
WEAKEST Inner left black arc is nearly uniform inside
STRONGEST Right arc band with brush-grain arcs and graded grey
Grey band, black arcs, overlapping translucent arc and pink wash are distinct passes. They stay readable at the top-centre crossing, but the bottom left is murky.
WEAKEST Lower left, where grey, red and black blur together
STRONGEST Translucent grey arc crossing over the black arc at top
The big arch sweep moves the eye left to right, and the white inner opening is well shaped. The ink covers 79% of the sheet, so the left third feels jammed and heavy.
WEAKEST Crowded, unresolved left third
STRONGEST White arch opening framed by the sweeping arcs
A pale circular ring sits inside the black arc near the top centre and shows in both views. Spatter dots fall on the upper-left paper, and the lower-left wash is cloudy.
WEAKEST Pale ring inside the top of the black arc
STRONGEST Dry-brush streaks and grain in right arc
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, 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: 3 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 20 edge segments, 40% crisp, 30% soft or bloomed, 30% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
4 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
2 major flaws: appliedThe rating cannot exceed 4.
lowest 1.0A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 5.3.
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.