--- title: "T_322, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_322 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_322 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_322). Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year. ## Recorded - **Date:** 2026.05.31, day 154 - **Size:** 97 × 180 cm - **Paper:** S11, Red Star Mo She Special Effect Xieyi, raw - **Inks:** MB4, MB5, MB6 - **Phase:** P3 The Floor Rises - **Shown on the site:** yes (V23 rating of 5.0 or higher) - **Early storage triage:** PT: probably trash (Peter's early system, since retired) ## Measured · V23 (v23.8) - **V23 rating:** 6.3 - **Form:** 2.8 - **Tonal depth:** 2 - **Layering:** 2.2 - **Composition:** 2 - **Material and surface:** 1.6 - **Ink cover:** 78% - **Dark share:** 24% - **Tonal steps:** 3 - **Flaws named by the reads:** bloom 3, other 10, water stain 4 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. ## Peter's own rating - **Rating:** 6 Peter's rating is his own eye, not the engine's, and he never gives a 10. > “There is always something that can be done better.” Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02 ## Older engine - **V10C:** 8 From an earlier engine (V10C). 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_322] ![T_322, tone-stretched] ![T_322, classed by brightness] 78% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 3 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: 0.038 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## 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 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 2 BUILT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 2.8 Tonal depth 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2.0 Layering 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 3 ORDERED 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 1 FLAWED 1.6 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “This sheet of concentric arcs echoes R3 but is thinner: the black arc is flat inside, the layering is simple, the upper left is weak, and drips mark the black arc's top edge. An ordinary, working sheet.” Form · BUILT Concentric arcs hold and follow the brush's travel; the dark arc's top end is cut square, and the pale left arcs dissolve into soft, loose edges. WEAKEST Blunt squared top end of dark arc with drips STRONGEST Mid-grey arc sweeping into dry-brush tail Tonal depth · MODELLED Grey bands show bristle streaks and graded tone; the measured dark-interior modulation is under the flat threshold, with only faint banding in the black arc; three tonal steps. WEAKEST Dark arc interior largely flat (modulation 0.038) STRONGEST Grey arcs streaked with bristle grain and arcs Layering · LEGIBLE Pale, mid-grey and black arc passes overlap translucently and stay readable, but the order is simple and the overlaps add little depth. WEAKEST Pale left arcs barely register as a pass STRONGEST Black arc laid over the mid-grey band, legible Composition · WORKING The rotating arcs give a strong clockwise direction and the lower-left void is shaped; the upper left is pale and weak, and the weight is crowded right. WEAKEST Washed-out upper-left quarter STRONGEST Sweeping spiral carrying eye to lower right Material and surface · FLAWED Small runs and blots sit on the top edge of the black arc, drops trail below the grey arc at centre-left, crease lines cross the grey bands, and there are bluish spots at the right edge. WEAKEST Drips and blots at top of black arc STRONGEST Dry-brush grain in grey arc tail FLAWS ## 5 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 5 distinct places, 17 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. GEOMETRY ## Measured from the 16-bit master. The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 3 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 6 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 19 edge segments, 32% crisp, 47% soft or bloomed, 21% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 3 steps: not applied RULE 2 A major flaw Material held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw. none named RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 1.6 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 rating 6.3. 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. MEAN RUNG 2.12 (2.8 + 2.0 + 2.2 + 2.0 + 1.6) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.24 1 + 2 × 2.12 → RATING 6.3 5 + 2.086 × (5.24 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.05.31 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-05-31)