T_365
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
- 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
- 89%
- Dark share
- 58%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 10, 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.
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: 0.036 (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 fan of layered translucent bands, similar to R3 in its layering. The flat dark right sector, the flat dark interiors and the heavy coverage keep form, tone and composition ordinary.”
The radial bands follow the brush's travel and their edges hold. The large right-centre sector is a bulky filled wedge, stiffer than the rest.
WEAKEST Flat, slab-like dark sector at right-centre
STRONGEST Radiating tapered bands in the left half
The overlapping bands give stepped greys and grain, but the measured dark modulation of 0.036 is flat. The right sector and the bottom-left black are flat inside.
WEAKEST Uniform dark interior of the right-centre sector
STRONGEST Stepped translucent greys in the upper-left bands
Many translucent passes overlap in a readable order across both fans. Their edges stay visible and build depth, much as in R3.
WEAKEST The right sector covers the passes beneath it
STRONGEST Stacked translucent band edges, upper left and right
The radial fan drives the eye outward from the bottom-centre void, and the top-right paper is shaped. Ink coverage of 0.89 crowds the sheet, and the right slab is heavy.
WEAKEST Dense, crowded lower right and lower left
STRONGEST Radial burst around the white semicircular void
The ink is controlled and the dry-brush ends are used well. Small white scratches or flecks sit inside the right-centre sector, with stray specks near the top centre. All are minor.
WEAKEST White flecks inside the flat right sector
STRONGEST Dry-brush band ends and grain, upper right
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: 3 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 8 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 24 edge segments, 83% crisp, 17% soft or bloomed, 0% 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.