T_358
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
- SHP: save, has potential (Peter's early system, since retired)
Measured · V23 (v23.8)
- V23 rating
- 6.2
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 1.6
- Layering
- 2.8
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 90%
- Dark share
- 57%
- Tonal steps
- 3
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 12, water stain 1
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 7.5
“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.
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: 0.044 (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 radial arc structure like R3's, but more crowded, with a flatter dark core and stiffer blocks at the edges. The layering is legible; the dark interiors measure flat.”
The radial wedges and arc sweeps are coherent and follow the brush. The square patches at left and the stacked bottom-right bars are slab-like and stiff.
WEAKEST Blunt rectangular blocks at left edge and bottom right
STRONGEST Long radial wedge down the centre, tapering cleanly
Dark interior modulation is 0.044, under the flat threshold. The big upper-left dark mass reads as one dense tone in colour. Banding shows mainly at its edges and its lower rim.
WEAKEST Large dark arc mass, upper left to centre
STRONGEST Dry-brush arc banding at lower left of dark mass
Several translucent passes of arcs and radial bars. Their overlaps stay readable, especially on the right and lower edges, so the build-up of the form can be followed.
WEAKEST Dense dark core where passes fuse together
STRONGEST Translucent radial bars overlapping arcs on right
Strong radial movement pulls the eye toward the top-centre opening. Ink covers 90% of the sheet, so the empty paper is mostly slivers and the upper left feels heavy.
WEAKEST Crowded upper-left dark mass with little empty paper
STRONGEST Radial convergence on the pale hole at top centre
Ink handling is controlled overall. Two small dark blots sit in the top-centre opening and a few spatter dots at lower left. No tide lines inside the dark masses.
WEAKEST Ink blots inside the pale focal opening
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain at the lower rim of the arcs
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, 13 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), 3 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 12 edge segments, 58% crisp, 42% soft or bloomed, 0% 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 1.6A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 6.2.
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.