--- title: "T_340, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_340 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_340 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_340). Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year. ## Recorded - **Date:** 2026.06.06, day 160 - **Size:** 70 × 140 cm - **Paper:** S6, Qing Yi 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:** 5.7 - **Form:** 2.6 - **Tonal depth:** 1 - **Layering:** 3 - **Composition:** 2.2 - **Material and surface:** 1 - **Ink cover:** 71% - **Dark share:** 66% - **Tonal steps:** 2 - **Flaws named by the reads:** water stain 5, tide line 3, other 1, dead ink 2, bloom 2 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_340] ![T_340, tone-stretched] ![T_340, classed by brightness] 71% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 2 families of tone. Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Two or fewer: Tonal depth is held at the bottom rung whatever the model reads. A dense sheet of many translucent passes can count low here, so Layering is left to the reads. Life inside the black: 0.041 (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 3 FLUENT 2 BUILT 2.6 Tonal depth 2 MODELLED 1 THIN 2 MODELLED 1 THIN 2 MODELLED 1.6 Layering 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3 ORDERED 3.0 Composition 2 WORKING 3 COMMANDING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2.2 Material and surface 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1 FLAWED 1.0 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “This sheet is in the same family as R3: layered radial arcs with fluent strokes and legible passes. It falls short of R3 on three ladders. The dark base is flat inside, the left side is crowded, and a cloudy water stain sits in the central hollow.” Form · FLUENT Wide arc strokes on both arches follow the brush's curved travel with walls that hold; a few short rectangular stubs near the centre gap feel slightly blocky. WEAKEST Blunt rectangular stub strokes in upper centre STRONGEST Right isolated arc stroke, clean taper along travel Tonal depth · MODELLED Overlaps give stepped greys and the left strokes carry grain, but the dense dark at the bottom centre is flat (modulation 0.041, two tonal steps). WEAKEST Dark lower-centre mass of right arch, flat inside STRONGEST Upper-left fanned strokes with streaked dry-brush grain Layering · ORDERED Many translucent passes are laid radially, and their overlaps read in order across both arches, building stepped depth. Only the densest bottom-centre black closes the sequence up. WEAKEST Bottom-centre dark where overlaps merge into black STRONGEST Translucent stepped bands along the right arch Composition · WORKING Two arches fan around a central hollow, giving a clear radial movement. The top-right paper is shaped, but the left arch is cropped and crowded and the base is heavy. WEAKEST Crowded, cropped left arch and heavy dark base STRONGEST Radial sweep of right arch to isolated end stroke Material and surface · FLAWED A cloudy grey wash with a lobed edge sits in the central hollow below the left arch tip, clearly visible in the colour view; elsewhere the ink is controlled. WEAKEST Cloudy pale wash stain beside left arch end STRONGEST Dry-brush striations in upper-left strokes FLAWS ## 5 distinct places, 1 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, 13 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. A major flaw holds Material and surface at rung 1. GEOMETRY ## Measured from the 16-bit master. The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 2 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 17 edge segments, 88% crisp, 12% soft or bloomed, 0% broken. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 2 steps: applied RULE 2 A major flaw Material held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw. 3 major flaws: applied RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 1.0 RULE 4 At least two valid reads A read that breaks the reply format is discarded. 5 of 5 valid Caps the code applied: {"run_id":"T_340","cap_no":1,"read_no":1,"cap_text":"sample 1: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}; {"run_id":"T_340","cap_no":2,"read_no":3,"cap_text":"sample 3: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}; {"run_id":"T_340","cap_no":3,"read_no":5,"cap_text":"sample 5: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}. THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 rating 5.7. 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. MEAN RUNG 2.08 (2.6 + 1.6 + 3.0 + 2.2 + 1.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.16 1 + 2 × 2.08 → RATING 6.2 5 + 2.086 × (5.16 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.06.06 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-06-06)