T_337
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
- 7
- Form
- 2.4
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 85%
- Dark share
- 59%
- Tonal steps
- 6
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 11
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.
6 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: 0.055 (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 radial arc composition in the manner of R3, with clear translucent layering, but heavier and more crowded. The large lower-right black is bulky and flat inside, which keeps form, tone and composition at an ordinary level.”
Concentric arc bands hold their walls and follow the sweep; the lower-right black mass and top-right inner rectangle read as bulky, filled slabs.
WEAKEST Heavy lower-right black block, bulky and filled in
STRONGEST Upper central dark arc band following brush travel
Upper arcs show banding, dry streaks and grain; grey left bands stepped. Large lower-right black is mostly flat; modulation 0.055 only modest.
WEAKEST Lower-right black mass, near-uniform interior
STRONGEST Upper central arc band with brush banding and grain
Six tonal steps; pale, mid and dark arc passes overlap translucently in a readable order on left and top right, building depth like R3.
WEAKEST Lower-right black covers earlier passes opaquely
STRONGEST Stepped translucent grey arcs on left and top right
Radial arcs carry the eye round to the open circle at bottom centre; the white gap is shaped, but 85% coverage leaves the right crowded and weighty.
WEAKEST Crowded, heavy dark lower right
STRONGEST White vertical channel opening into bottom-centre circle
Ink controlled; small ink drops near left-centre gap and a speck at right edge; paper creases visible in tone-stretched darks, not disruptive.
WEAKEST Stray drips beside left-centre grey bands
STRONGEST Dry-brush trailing edges at bottom right of arcs
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, 11 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: 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 18 edge segments, 50% crisp, 50% soft or bloomed, 0% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
6 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 7.0.
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.