T_330
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
- 2.8
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2.6
- Material and surface
- 1.8
- Ink cover
- 82%
- Dark share
- 54%
- Tonal steps
- 8
- Flaws named by the reads
- water stain 3, ring 2, other 7, bloom 1
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 8
“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.
8 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: 0.056 (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 is a close relative of R3: fluent concentric arcs with ordered translucent layers and good tonal range. It falls short of R3 because the lower right is heavy and crowded, and spots spoil the white centre.”
Concentric arc bands on both halves follow the curve of the stroke with clean holding walls; the lower-right band ends are squarer and heavier but still travel.
WEAKEST Blocky stepped ends of the lower-right dark bands
STRONGEST Left sweeping arc bands following the brush's curve
Eight tonal steps; interior modulation 0.056 shows grain and creases inside the darks; graded greys from pale outer arcs to black inner bands on both sides.
WEAKEST Lower-right dark mass, near-black and dense
STRONGEST Left upper arcs stepping from pale grey to black
Several translucent passes overlap in readable order, pale outer arcs under darker inner ones; sequence legible across both halves, though the darkest right passes largely cover what lies beneath.
WEAKEST Lower-right overlaps where black covers earlier greys
STRONGEST Translucent stacked arcs at upper left
Two facing arc systems circle a shaped central void with clear rotational movement; the bottom right is dense and heavy, weighing the sheet down compared with R3's balance.
WEAKEST Heavy, crowded dark mass at bottom right
STRONGEST Central white circle opening between the two arcs
Scattered grey spots and drips sit in the central white opening right against the inner left arc, visible in the colour view; a ring-like mark sits inside the right dark mass.
WEAKEST Grey spot spatter in central white beside inner arc
STRONGEST Grainy dry edges on upper left arcs
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, 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.
Measured from the 16-bit master.
The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 3 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 2 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 19 edge segments, 32% crisp, 63% soft or bloomed, 5% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
8 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
none namedThe rating cannot exceed 4.
lowest 1.8A 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.