--- title: "T_339, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_339 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_339 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_339). 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:** 2.4 - **Tonal depth:** 2.6 - **Layering:** 3 - **Composition:** 2.8 - **Material and surface:** 2 - **Ink cover:** 78% - **Dark share:** 52% - **Tonal steps:** 4 - **Flaws named by the reads:** ring 1, other 5, water stain 4 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:** 7 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_339] ![T_339, tone-stretched] ![T_339, classed by brightness] 78% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 4 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: 0.056 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, agreeing on 2 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 3 FLUENT 3 FLUENT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2.4 Tonal depth 3 DEEP 2 MODELLED 3 DEEP 3 DEEP 2 MODELLED 2.6 Layering 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3.0 Composition 3 COMMANDING 3 COMMANDING 3 COMMANDING 2 WORKING 3 COMMANDING 2.8 Material and surface 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2.0 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “Fan of layered arc segments close to R3's idiom: ordered translucent passes, graded greys, shaped void. Lowest black arc somewhat bulky, right side crowded, minor blots at left keep material at sound.” Form · FLUENT Arc segments follow brush travel around a common centre; walls hold with dry-brush ends. Lowest black arc is bulky but still curved and made. WEAKEST heavy lowest black arc, slightly slab-like at left end STRONGEST upper black trapezoid segment with clean dragged walls Tonal depth · DEEP Modulation 0.056, four tonal steps; tone-stretched view shows arcs, grain and crackle inside black masses, and a stepped range of greys outward to paper. WEAKEST darkest lower arc near-uniform at left end STRONGEST right-side grey segments graded with brush banding Layering · ORDERED Pale grey fan segments laid first, mid greys then black over them; overlaps read clearly across top and right, building depth in sequence. WEAKEST black arcs partly cover earlier grey passes STRONGEST translucent pale segments overlapping at upper left Composition · COMMANDING One sweeping arc carries eye from left to bottom right; the inner white void and upper-left paper are shaped. Weight crowds right edge somewhat. WEAKEST bottom-right crop feels heavy and cut STRONGEST sweeping fan arc around the open lower-centre void Material and surface · SOUND Ink controlled with dry-brush edges; small blot/ring marks in pale grey at left edge; crinkle network across darks reads as paper texture, not major. WEAKEST small pale blots in left grey wash STRONGEST dry-brush grain at segment ends, upper centre FLAWS ## 3 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 3 distinct places, 10 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: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 2 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 38% crisp, 31% soft or bloomed, 31% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 4 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 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. MEAN RUNG 2.56 (2.4 + 2.6 + 3.0 + 2.8 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 6.12 1 + 2 × 2.56 → RATING 8.2 5 + 2.086 × (6.12 − 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)