--- title: "T_346, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_346 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_346 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_346). 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 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:** 7 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_346] ![T_346, tone-stretched] ![T_346, classed by brightness] 76% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 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 ## 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 3 FLUENT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2.2 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 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.” Form · BUILT 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 Tonal depth · MODELLED 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 Layering · ORDERED 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 Composition · WORKING 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 Material and surface · SOUND 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 FLAWS ## 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. GEOMETRY ## 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. RULE 1 Two tonal steps or fewer Tonal depth held at rung 1. 3 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 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. MEAN RUNG 2.24 (2.2 + 2.0 + 3.0 + 2.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.48 1 + 2 × 2.24 → RATING 6.8 5 + 2.086 × (5.48 − 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)