T_357
The work as shown. 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
- 6.7
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 87%
- Dark share
- 51%
- Tonal steps
- 3
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 10, overwork 1
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: 0.040 (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
“This is a concentric arc construction in R3's family with good translucent layering. It falls short of R3 through a flat, heavy left dark core, stiff stepped blocks in the centre, and crowded coverage that leaves little shaped empty paper.”
Arc bands follow the stroke around the horseshoe, but the central column ends are blunt stepped rectangles and the stacked blocks feel stiff and filled in.
WEAKEST Stepped rectangular block ends in the centre columns
STRONGEST Curving arc bands following the brush travel
The outer rings step through greys, but the measured dark-interior modulation (0.040) is flat and the left dark core reads as an even, uniform block.
WEAKEST Dense dark core of the left arc
STRONGEST Graded grey bands in the outer rings
Many translucent passes overlap in arcs with a readable order, especially on the right; the left core's stacking thickens towards an opaque dark.
WEAKEST Dense overlaps in the left dark core
STRONGEST Translucent overlapping arcs on the right side
The horseshoe sweep and the central slot give it direction, but 87% ink coverage crowds the frame, and the left dark mass is heavy compared with R3's open space.
WEAKEST Crowded heavy left mass with little breathing paper
STRONGEST Horseshoe sweep around the open top-centre void
The ink is controlled, with clean band edges. There is a small smudge and some speckles at the lower right, away from the principal masses, and faint paper creases.
WEAKEST Smudged dry patch and specks, lower right
STRONGEST Grainy brush edges on 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, 11 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: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 4 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 14 edge segments, 64% crisp, 29% soft or bloomed, 7% 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 6.7.
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.