--- title: "T_329, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_329 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_329 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_329). 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 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:** 9 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_329] ![T_329, tone-stretched] ![T_329, classed by brightness] 78% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 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 ## 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 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 3.0 Tonal depth 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2.0 Layering 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3.0 Composition 3 COMMANDING 3 COMMANDING 3 COMMANDING 3 COMMANDING 3 COMMANDING 3.0 Material and surface 3 FINE 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2.2 ### 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.” Form · FLUENT 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 Tonal depth · MODELLED 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 Layering · ORDERED 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 Composition · COMMANDING 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 Material and surface · FINE 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 FLAWS ## 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. GEOMETRY ## 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. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 7 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 2.0 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 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. MEAN RUNG 2.64 (3.0 + 2.0 + 3.0 + 3.0 + 2.2) ÷ 5 → RAW 6.28 1 + 2 × 2.64 → RATING 8.5 5 + 2.086 × (6.28 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.06.03 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-06-03)