T_363
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
- 81%
- Dark share
- 57%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 8, water stain 1, dead ink 1
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.
5 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: 0.037 (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 sheet is related to R3: radial translucent layering around an arch opening, with good legible passes. It falls short because the darks are flat inside, the arch is slab-like and the bottom is crowded by near-total coverage.”
Radial wedges and arch bands hold their walls and follow the brush's sweep, but the heavy central arch and the lower-left rectangles stay slab-like and filled in.
WEAKEST Bulky dark arch band right of central opening
STRONGEST Radial fan blocks along the upper left arm
The fan blades step through about five grey plateaus with dry-brush grain, but the dark arch and the lower-centre masses are flat inside (modulation 0.037).
WEAKEST Flat black arch around central opening
STRONGEST Graded translucent greys in the upper fan blades
Many translucent overlapping blades stay legible at their edges and build depth. The red bands sit as a clear separate pass beside the black.
WEAKEST Dense overlaps in the lower-centre darks lose some order
STRONGEST Stacked translucent blades in the left and right fans
A strong radial arrangement leads to the white arch, and the empty paper at the top is shaped. But 81% coverage makes the lower half jammed and heavy.
WEAKEST Crowded, heavy lower band across the bottom edge
STRONGEST Radial fan converging on the central white opening
The ink is controlled and the dry-brush edges are used well. The paper has faint creases, and the pale top-right wedge reads slightly cloudy. Nothing major sits in the principal darks.
WEAKEST Pale cloudy wash in the top-right triangle
STRONGEST Dry-brush edges on the fan blades
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, 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 18 edge segments, 72% crisp, 28% soft or bloomed, 0% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
5 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.