--- title: "T_352, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_352 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_352 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352). Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year. ## Recorded - **Date:** 2026.06.14, day 168 - **Size:** 97 × 180 cm - **Paper:** S10, Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu bark, Exhibition Edition - **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:** 5.2 - **Form:** 2 - **Tonal depth:** 1 - **Layering:** 2.2 - **Composition:** 2 - **Material and surface:** 2 - **Ink cover:** 84% - **Dark share:** 55% - **Tonal steps:** 2 - **Flaws named by the reads:** other 14, water stain 1 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_352] ![T_352, tone-stretched] ![T_352, classed by brightness] 84% 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: 0.029 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## 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 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2.0 Tonal depth 1 THIN 1 THIN 1 THIN 2 MODELLED 1 THIN 1.2 Layering 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 3 ORDERED 2 LEGIBLE 2.2 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 “Radial fan like R3 in idea, but denser and flatter: dark interiors are uniform, there are only two tone families, the right block is stiff and stepped, and the sheet is crowded. Surface sound.” Form · BUILT Left spiral arcs follow brush travel well; right-hand group ends in squared, stacked slab tops that read as stiff, bulky blocks. WEAKEST Stepped blocky slab ends of right-hand fan STRONGEST Curving arc bands spiralling into lower-left eye Tonal depth · THIN Measured dark interior modulation 0.029 (flat) and only two tonal plateaus; banding mostly at band edges, the big dark interiors read uniform. WEAKEST Large dark mass centre-left, flat interior STRONGEST Dry-brush streaking in arc near centre bottom Layering · LEGIBLE Many overlapping band edges remain readable at the fan rims, but the facts show two tone families; dark core passes merge into one tone. WEAKEST Dense centre where overlaps converge into one dark STRONGEST Translucent overlapping bands at outer fan edges Composition · WORKING Spiral gives clear movement toward the white hole; 84% coverage leaves only a top-right wedge of paper, and the right block sits heavy. WEAKEST Crowded right half, little shaped empty paper STRONGEST Spiral sweep leading into white eye, lower left Material and surface · SOUND Ink controlled overall; minor drops near lower-left eye, fine crease lines top-centre, specks top-right paper, none disrupting a principal mass. WEAKEST Small spots and creases in paper, lower left STRONGEST Dry-brush grain in central arc stroke FLAWS ## 5 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 5 distinct places, 15 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: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 6 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 75% crisp, 25% 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. none named RULE 3 Any quality below 0.5 The rating cannot exceed 4. lowest 1.2 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_352","cap_no":1,"read_no":4,"cap_text":"sample 4: T 2->1: tonal_steps=2 (<=2)"}. THE ARITHMETIC ## V23 rating 5.2. 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 1.88 (2.0 + 1.2 + 2.2 + 2.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 4.76 1 + 2 × 1.88 → RATING 5.3 5 + 2.086 × (4.76 − 4.60) ## Where next [Every record the full archive](https://peteryuill.art/archive)[2026.06.14 every painting from this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-06-14)