--- title: "T_357, full record | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_357 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_357 [The work as shown](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_357). 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 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_357] ![T_357, tone-stretched] ![T_357, classed by brightness] 87% 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: 0.040 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, one answer. Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. 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 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 “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.” Form · BUILT 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 Tonal depth · MODELLED 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 Layering · ORDERED 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 Composition · WORKING 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 Material and surface · SOUND 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 FLAWS ## 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. GEOMETRY ## 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. 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 6.7. 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. MEAN RUNG 2.20 (2.0 + 2.0 + 3.0 + 2.0 + 2.0) ÷ 5 → RAW 5.40 1 + 2 × 2.20 → RATING 6.7 5 + 2.086 × (5.40 − 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)