T_335
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
- SA: save, archive (Peter's early system, since retired)
Measured · V23 (v23.8)
- V23 rating
- 8.2
- Form
- 3
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2.8
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 80%
- Dark share
- 40%
- Tonal steps
- 7
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 11, water stain 1
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 7
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 7
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: 0.054 (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
“A concentric arc sheet in R3's family, with fluent arcs and ordered translucent layering. The black arc is fairly flat inside and the composition is less resolved than R3's. The surface is sound, with only minor crease marks.”
Concentric arc bands follow the brush's curved travel; walls hold cleanly. Squared stepped terminations at the upper-left greys are slightly blunt, but not clumsy.
WEAKEST Stepped blocky ends of upper-left grey bands
STRONGEST Broad black arc sweeping centre to bottom right
Seven tonal steps across many grey bands. Interior modulation of 0.054 is only modest, and the large black arc and the black block at left read mostly flat inside.
WEAKEST Main black arc interior nearly uniform
STRONGEST Dry-brush inner grey arc, bottom centre
Several translucent grey passes overlap in a readable order, building out from black to pale outer arcs at right and left. The overlaps stay legible.
WEAKEST Black arc covers rather than shows underlying passes
STRONGEST Stacked translucent grey arcs, upper right
The concentric sweep gives clear direction and the white core is shaped. The left fragment and the top-left paper wedge feel less resolved than R3's balanced opening.
WEAKEST Left arc fragment feels cut off and wedged
STRONGEST Large arc sweep around the white centre
Ink is controlled with no tide lines or rings. Crease networks show in the greys at right and centre, and there is a small speck at the left edge.
WEAKEST Paper crease lines visible through grey bands
STRONGEST Grainy dry-brush texture in inner arc
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, 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: 5 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 23 edge segments, 39% crisp, 52% soft or bloomed, 9% 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 8.2.
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.