--- title: "T_337, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_337 description: "Crucible Year: a continuous year of sumi ink painting on paper by Peter Yuill, begun 29 December 2025." source: generated from the Crucible Year master database --- Archive · full record # T_337 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_337). 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 The V23 rating runs from 1 to 9, with 5 the middle of this body of work. It is the engine's reading, and the reference the archive is measured against. ## Peter's own rating - **Rating:** 8 Peter's rating is his own eye, not the engine's, and he never gives a 10. > “There is always something that can be done better.” Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02 ## Older engine - **V10C:** 8 From an earlier engine (V10C). Its scale differs from V23's, so it is only ever compared with other readings by the same engine. ## 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](https://peteryuill.art/method). WHAT THE CODE SEES ## 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. ![T_337] ![T_337, tone-stretched] ![T_337, classed by brightness] 85% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 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 ## 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 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 2.4 Tonal depth 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2 MODELLED 2.0 Layering 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3.0 Composition 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2.0 Material and surface 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2.0 ### 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.” Form · BUILT 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 Tonal depth · MODELLED 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 Layering · ORDERED 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 Composition · WORKING 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 Material and surface · SOUND 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 FLAWS ## 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. GEOMETRY ## 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. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 6 steps: not applied RULE 2 A major flaw Material held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw. none named RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 2.0 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 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. MEAN RUNG 2.28 (2.4 + 2.0 + 3.0 + 2.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.56 1 + 2 × 2.28 → RATING 7.0 5 + 2.086 × (5.56 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.06.03 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-06-03)