T_361
The work as shown. Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year.
Recorded
- Date
- 2026.07.28, day 212
- Size
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- S14, Half-Cooked Red Star Mo She 6-Foot Bark Xuan Paper
- Inks
- MB6, MB7, MB8, MC
- 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
- 6.7
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 80%
- Dark share
- 62%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 5, dead ink 5
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 8
“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.
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: 0.045 (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
“A radial spiral like R3, with good translucent layering, but the dominant black slab on the right is flat, bulky and crowds the sheet, which keeps form, tone and composition at an ordinary level.”
The left fan of arc strokes follows the brush's travel cleanly. The large right black block is a filled slab whose stepped edges are blunt and stiff.
WEAKEST Bulky black slab filling the upper right
STRONGEST Concentric arc strokes around the left centre hole
The left fans show stepped grey densities and brush grain. The right black mass is nearly uniform inside; the modulation of 0.045 sits at the flat threshold.
WEAKEST Interior of the large right black mass
STRONGEST Graded translucent greys in the left radial fan
Many translucent arc and blade passes overlap and stay readable, building depth across the spiral. On the right, the black covers the earlier layers instead of sitting over them legibly.
WEAKEST The right black mass buries earlier passes
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent fan blades on the upper left
A clear spiral carries the eye from the hole outward, and the upper-left paper is shaped. The right half is crowded and weighed down by the solid black block.
WEAKEST Heavy, crowded right half
STRONGEST Spiral sweep from the left hub out to the right
The ink is controlled, the dry-brush endings are used and the pink accents are deliberate colour. The one flaw is a few small spatter dots on the upper-left paper; the right black mass reads as surface.
WEAKEST Dead, flat surface of the right black block
STRONGEST Dry-brush edges on the arc strokes
2 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 2 distinct places, 10 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), 6 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 38% crisp, 56% 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 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.