T_369
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
- 70%
- Dark share
- 53%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 8, dead ink 2, mud 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.
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: 0.042 (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 radial sheet is like R3 but busier: the overlapping passes and red bands are layered so each can still be read. The dark hub is flat inside, the right-side blocks look stiff, and the lower centre is crowded.”
Left arcs and ring segments follow the brush's travel; right-side fan becomes boxy slabs, e.g. the dark block at right edge and stacked rectangles.
WEAKEST Stiff rectangular blocks at right edge and centre-right
STRONGEST Concentric arc segments around the central hub
Measured dark modulation 0.042 is flat; central black disc and lower-centre darks are uniform, though grey arcs and fan wedges show grain and stepped density.
WEAKEST Central dark hub mass reads flat
STRONGEST Grained grey arc upper-left of hub
Many translucent grey passes overlap legibly across the fan; red bands sit as a clear separate pass under and beside black; order readable across most of sheet.
WEAKEST Lower-centre overlaps compress into dense dark
STRONGEST Translucent fan wedges stacking toward top right
Hub left-of-centre drives a diagonal fan to the upper right, shaping the empty top; lower half jammed and heavy, right-edge block feels cut off.
WEAKEST Crowded dark lower-centre and cropped right block
STRONGEST Radial sweep from hub up to top right
Ink controlled; dry-brush grain used in arcs; only paper creases and faint lines in empty paper; no stains in principal masses.
WEAKEST Dense lower darks lose material character
STRONGEST Dry-brush grain in upper-left grey arc
7 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 7 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: 3 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 5 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 20 edge segments, 35% crisp, 50% soft or bloomed, 15% 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.