T_336
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
- 7.7
- Form
- 2.2
- Tonal depth
- 3
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 80%
- Dark share
- 51%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 16, 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
- 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.
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: 0.072 (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 layered arc composition close to R3 in kind, with good tonal range and readable translucent passes. It is less resolved: there is a slab-like top-left block, a passive lower-left corner and creases across the arcs.”
Inner and right arc bands curve with the stroke and hold their walls; the top-left black block is a blunt, squared slab with ragged left edge.
WEAKEST Top-left dark block, a stiff rectangular slab
STRONGEST Lower inner arc band following brush travel
Five tonal steps; arcs show brush banding and stepped density; right dark arc modulated (0.072); greys range from pale outer bands to black.
WEAKEST Top-left black block fairly even in its core
STRONGEST Right dark arc with grain and banding
Several translucent passes stacked as arc segments; overlaps legible as darker steps, order readable from pale outer bands to dark inner blocks.
WEAKEST Upper-right pale bands blur into each other
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent arc segments centre-right
Large arc carries the eye diagonally and the inner void is shaped; lower-left corner is passive and the mass crowds the right edge.
WEAKEST Lower-left empty paper feels leftover
STRONGEST Sweeping arc from top-left to bottom-right
Ink controlled with dry-brush edges; crumple crease lines cross the central masses, small spatter at left margin and drips bottom centre, away from principal masses.
WEAKEST Crease lines crossing central arcs
STRONGEST Dry-brush banding in inner arc
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, 17 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 14 edge segments, 36% crisp, 57% soft or bloomed, 7% 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 7.7.
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.