T_350
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
- 7.5
- Form
- 2.2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2.8
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 84%
- Dark share
- 48%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 12
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 8
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 9
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: 0.028 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, agreeing on 3 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 concentric-arc sheet in R3's idiom, with clear translucent layering and a well-shaped empty centre. It falls short of R3 because the right black mass is flat and slab-like and the weight sits unevenly. Surface flaws are minor.”
Rectangular wide-brush blocks step around a ring with holding walls; right-centre black merges into a heavy slab, losing individual stroke shape.
WEAKEST Right black mass fuses into one bulky slab
STRONGEST Stepped arc blocks at left following brush travel
Outer grey bands show stepped density and brush grain; the large right black mass is flat inside (modulation 0.028).
WEAKEST Interior of big right black mass
STRONGEST Graded translucent grey blocks around the outer ring
Several translucent passes, pale outer to black inner, overlap legibly in stepped order across both arcs; four tonal steps.
WEAKEST Black passes on right cover earlier greys
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent grey blocks, left arc
Concentric arc sweeps across the frame; vertical paper channel and lower void shape the space; right half heavier than left.
WEAKEST Right side weighted heavily by black mass
STRONGEST Pale vertical gap and open circle at bottom centre
Ink controlled with dry-brush edges; small white specks in right black, faint crease lines top left, drips in central strip are minor.
WEAKEST White scratch specks inside right black mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain at block edges
4 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 4 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), 5 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 17 edge segments, 77% crisp, 18% soft or bloomed, 6% 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 7.5.
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.