T_332
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
- 6.5
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 2.8
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 81%
- Dark share
- 60%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 15
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 8
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 9
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.
5 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: 0.051 (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 layered hook-shaped arc is close to R3 in method, but it falls short of it. The left blocks are slab-like and the right black mass is flat. Its strength is the layering, and its surface is sound.”
The arc reads as a coherent hook built from stepped bands, but the blocks on the left are blunt rectangles stacked without following a single stroke path.
WEAKEST Stacked slab-like rectangles in the left cluster
STRONGEST Curving outer arc sweeping round the right
Five tonal steps, and the grey bands carry graded tone and dry-brush grain. The large right black mass is mostly flat, with modulation of 0.051, just above the flat threshold.
WEAKEST Near-uniform black interior of right-hand arc mass
STRONGEST Graded grey bands stepping around the inner curve
Several translucent passes overlap in a readable order. Pale outer bands, mid greys and black blocks build depth along the arc, much as in R3's stepped rings.
WEAKEST Dense dark overlaps in the upper centre
STRONGEST Translucent stepped grey passes around the inner U
The arc carries the eye from left to bottom right, and the white tongue inside is well shaped. The left cluster is busy and the right black area weighs heavily.
WEAKEST Crowded block cluster at the left end
STRONGEST Sweeping hook with a shaped white tongue inside
The ink is controlled and the edges are crisp. Small spatter sits at bottom left, there is a blot at the top-right edge, and paper creases are visible through the greys.
WEAKEST Stray drops and spatter on the left paper
STRONGEST Dry-brush streaks at the ends of the blocks
6 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 6 distinct places, 15 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: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 17 edge segments, 18% crisp, 82% soft or bloomed, 0% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
5 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 6.5.
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.