T_367
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
- 5.5
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 1.6
- Layering
- 2
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 69%
- Dark share
- 60%
- Tonal steps
- 5
- Flaws named by the reads
- mud 2, other 6, water stain 1, dead ink 2
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: 0.041 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, agreeing on 4 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
“This is a twin-spiral radial sheet in the R3 idiom, with good layered greys and a deliberate red accent. Its right half is overloaded with flat, slab-like blacks, which crowds the composition and deadens the tone. Ordinary overall.”
The radial and arc segments hold their walls and follow the brush travel on the left. The right-side black wedges and bottom slabs are heavy, filled-in blocks.
WEAKEST Bulky dark slabs at bottom right running off edge
STRONGEST Left spiral's concentric arc segments around open centre
The peripheral rays step through several greys (5 tonal plateaus). Dark-interior modulation is 0.041, so the big right and bottom-right blacks are flat apart from paper crinkle.
WEAKEST Flat black interiors of right fan wedges
STRONGEST Graded translucent greys in the left spiral's outer rays
The overlapping grey passes on the left and at the top centre stay readable, and the red sits legibly under the black arcs. On the right, dense black covers the sequence.
WEAKEST Right half where black passes bury earlier layers
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent rays around the left spiral
The two vortices connect in an S that carries the eye left to right, and the left paper is open. The right third is jammed and the dark slabs crowd the bottom edge.
WEAKEST Crowded, heavy right and bottom-right mass
STRONGEST Twin spiral centres linked by an S-shaped flow
The ink is mostly controlled and the red is deliberate. A mottled cloudy grey sits in the lower-centre overlap, crinkle texture shows in the right blacks, and stray dots dot the left paper.
WEAKEST Cloudy mottled grey in the lower-centre overlap
STRONGEST Dry-brush edges on the radial ray ends
5 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 5 distinct places, 11 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 17 edge segments, 65% crisp, 24% soft or bloomed, 12% 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 1.6A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 5.5.
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.