T_346
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
- S7, Qing Yi cooked
- 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
- 6.8
- Form
- 2.2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 76%
- Dark share
- 57%
- Tonal steps
- 3
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 10
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.
3 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: 0.037 (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 layered arc structure related to R3, with legible translucent passes. The darks are flat inside, the centre is crowded and the central wedge is blocky, so it falls short of R3's depth and command.”
Arc bands follow the brush's travel and their walls hold, but the central black wedge and the square-cut band ends read as stiff, slab-like blocks.
WEAKEST Bulky dark central wedge with blunt rectangular end
STRONGEST Outer grey arc band sweeping along lower left
The grey arcs show banding and grain. The central and right darks are flat inside (modulation 0.037, under the 0.045 line). There are three tonal steps.
WEAKEST Central black wedge interior flat
STRONGEST Lower arc with banded dry-brush grain
Several translucent arc passes overlap in a readable order across the left fan and right arc. Each band stays legible where the passes cross.
WEAKEST Dense centre where overlaps darken toward uniformity
STRONGEST Stacked translucent arcs in the left fan
The radial fan gives a clear direction and the top-right void is shaped. With 76% coverage the centre feels heavy and crowded, and the lower left is leftover paper.
WEAKEST Crowded dense centre-left mass
STRONGEST Shaped white void between fan and right arc
The ink is controlled and the dry-brush edges are used. Crease or crackle lines run through the central dark, and there are small spatter spots at the bottom left. No tide lines.
WEAKEST Crease lines crossing central dark mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain on lower arc edges
2 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 2 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.
Measured from the 16-bit master.
The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 2 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 1 enclosed void at true size in its grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 18 edge segments, 56% crisp, 28% soft or bloomed, 17% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
3 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 6.8.
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.