T_362
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
- 90%
- Dark share
- 60%
- Tonal steps
- 3
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 9, dead ink 3
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, one answer.
Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps.
READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS
“The radial layered fan around an arch window recalls R3, with legible translucent passes. It is overcrowded and dark-heavy, its lower masses flat and slab-like, so it sits nearer an ordinary sheet than R3.”
Radial strokes hold their walls and follow the arc, but the lower-left and right-centre dark blocks read as filled slabs, not fluent strokes.
WEAKEST Bulky dark slab at lower left beside the arch
STRONGEST Radial fan strokes at upper left following brush travel
Banding and grain run through the upper fans, but dark interior modulation is 0.044, below flat. The lower-left and centre-right darks are largely uniform.
WEAKEST Flat dark interior of lower-left mass
STRONGEST Banded greys in upper-right fan wedge
Many translucent radial passes overlap in a readable order around the arch. Edges of each pass stay visible, especially across the upper half.
WEAKEST Lower dark zone where passes pile into near-black
STRONGEST Stacked translucent wedges across upper fan
The fan radiating from the arch gives clear movement, but 90% coverage crowds the sheet. The lower half is a dense dark wall and the empty paper is mostly leftover top-right.
WEAKEST Crowded, heavy lower band with little open paper
STRONGEST Radial convergence on the white arch window
Controlled ink with grainy stroke ends. Paper crease and crackle lines show inside the upper-right and centre darks, but they are minor. The violet colour is deliberate.
WEAKEST Crease lines crossing upper-right dark wedge
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain edges on radial strokes
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, 12 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 18 edge segments, 56% crisp, 44% 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 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.