T_329
The work as shown. Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year.
Recorded
- Date
- 2026.06.03, day 157
- Size
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- S12, Red Star Mo She Special Effect Xieyi, half-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
- SHP: save, has potential (Peter's early system, since retired)
Measured · V23 (v23.8)
- V23 rating
- 8.5
- Form
- 3
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 3
- Material and surface
- 2.2
- Ink cover
- 78%
- Dark share
- 43%
- Tonal steps
- 7
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 12
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.
7 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: 0.047 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, agreeing on 4 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 is a close sibling of R3, with two fans of stacked translucent arcs around a central opening. The layering is ordered and the composition is strong. The dark interiors are only slightly modelled, and there is one tiny flaw at the bottom left.”
Concentric arc bands on both halves follow the brush's sweep with crisp squared ends; only the bottom-left stub reads slightly blocky.
WEAKEST Squat dark stub block at bottom-left edge
STRONGEST Inner small arc ring around central opening
Greys carry grain and banding, seven tonal steps; but dark interior modulation 0.047 is barely above flat, right black mass reads mostly solid.
WEAKEST Right central black arc mass, nearly uniform interior
STRONGEST Left grey bands with grain and crackle texture
Many translucent arc passes stacked outward from pale to dark, overlaps legible and ordered on both halves; right dark core loses some separation.
WEAKEST Right dark passes merge into near-solid block
STRONGEST Stepped translucent outer arcs, upper left
Two arc fans radiate around a central opening, the white gap and paper above shaped and active; eye swings along the arcs across the sheet.
WEAKEST Bottom-left corner crowded by stub block
STRONGEST Central vertical gap splitting two arc fans
Grain, dry-brush stroke ends and crackle texture shape the bands; only a tiny white notch bottom-left and small speck at right edge.
WEAKEST Small torn white notch in bottom-left dark
STRONGEST Dry-brush squared ends on upper grey bands
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, 12 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: 2 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 17 edge segments, 24% crisp, 65% soft or bloomed, 12% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
7 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 8.5.
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.