T_345
The work as shown. 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
- 6.7
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 80%
- Dark share
- 61%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 10, bloom 2
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 7
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 7
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.
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: 0.050 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, one answer.
Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps.
READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS
“An arch of layered translucent arc bands, close in kind to R3, with ordered passes and a shaped central void. It falls below R3 because the lower-left blocks are stiff and heavy and some dark interiors are flat.”
Arc bands follow the brush's curve with clean, held walls; the lower-left cluster of rectangular blocks is stiff and filled in, and its joins are clumsy.
WEAKEST Left stacked rectangles, blunt and slab-like
STRONGEST Concentric arc bands sweeping across the top right
Grain and stepped greys run through the upper arcs; the dark inner right band and the lower-left darks are nearly uniform. Modulation of 0.0496 is barely above flat.
WEAKEST Inner dark right arc band, near-flat interior
STRONGEST Upper arcs with dry-brush grain and banding
Several translucent passes overlap in a readable order across the arch, building depth; the left blocks stack less clearly.
WEAKEST Left block cluster, overlaps partly covering each other
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent arc bands in the top centre
The great arch carries the eye around the white central void, which has a strong shape; the lower-left mass sits heavy and somewhat apart.
WEAKEST Crowded lower-left block cluster detached from the arch
STRONGEST Arch framing the shaped white void at centre
Ink is controlled, with dry-brush edges on the arcs. Small dark blots sit in the lower-left mass and minor spatter at top left; neither damages a principal area much.
WEAKEST Dark pooled blots inside the lower-left mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain at the edges of the arc bands
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, 12 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 19 edge segments, 63% crisp, 32% soft or bloomed, 5% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
4 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 6.7.
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.