T_412
The work as shown. Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year.
Recorded
- Date
- 2026.11.03, day 310
- Size
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- S14, Half-Cooked Red Star Mo She 6-Foot Bark Xuan Paper, self-sized
- Inks
- MB6, MB8, MB9, MB10
- Phase
- P4 S14
- Shown on the site
- yes (combined score of 5.0 or more)
The combined score
- Combined score
- 6.14
- Read half
- 30
- Measured half
- 31.4
Read · V23 (v23.13)
- V23 rating
- 6
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 1.8
- Layering
- 2.2
- Composition
- 2.2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 76%
- Dark share
- 67%
- Tonal steps
- 3
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 16, water stain 3, tide line 4, ring 2
Measured · V24, from the 16-bit TIFF
- Mass
- 9.4 of 10
- Tone
- 10.4 of 14
- Void
- 6.4 of 8
- Flow
- 5.2 of 10
- Balance
- 0 of 8
- Measured half
- 31.4 of 50
- Mass width in mm
- rung 5 of 5
- Mass width against the sheet
- rung 5 of 5
- Evenness of that width
- rung 4 of 5
- Depth of the darks
- rung 4 of 5
- Black plateau
- rung 4 of 5
- Step from mid to dark
- rung 3 of 5
- Evenness inside the darks
- rung 4 of 5
- Spread across tonal bands
- rung 3 of 5
- Voids gathered, not scattered
- rung 4 of 5
- Directions across the sheet
- rung 1 of 5
- Local gesture and edge
- rung 5 of 5
- Balance on the sheet
- rung 0 of 5
- Mass width
- 281 mm
- Depth of the darks (p75 density)
- 1.79
- Largest void, radius
- 220 mm
- Direction alignment
- 0.40
- Left and right asymmetry
- 1.26
- Resolution
- 3.91 px per mm
How the number was made
Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.13, on 2026.11.03: 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: 0.054 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, agreeing on 2 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
“Two opposed arc masses with clearly stepped translucent passes and a strong white diagonal channel, held back by bulky, nearly flat black cores and small creases. Ordered layering is its best quality; otherwise an ordinary, working sheet.”
Two arc-segment masses have coherent, holding walls following a curved sweep, but the black cores read as filled slabs; stepped joins lower left of the right mass are stiff.
WEAKEST Bulky black fan core with clumsy stepped notches, upper right
STRONGEST Outer arc band sweeping beneath the upper right mass
Grey bands show grain and stepped density; black cores read almost flat in colour, with only faint variation when stretched. Modulation 0.054 sits just above the flat line.
WEAKEST Lower left black core, nearly flat inside
STRONGEST Grey arc bands with grain, lower right and lower left
Pale dry-brush, grey, darker grey and black passes step in clear order on both masses; overlaps at the right arc and lower left edge stay readable and build depth.
WEAKEST Opaque black cores conceal the passes beneath them
STRONGEST Stepped translucent bands around the upper right fan
Opposed arcs imply one large circular sweep, with a shaped diagonal channel between them, but the black mass sits heavy and the top left paper does little work.
WEAKEST Heavy black upper right mass dominates; top left paper is passive
STRONGEST Diagonal white channel between the two opposing arcs
Ink is controlled and edges bind cleanly; dry-brush is good but not form-shaping throughout. Small creases in the black and grey bands, plus faint cloudy wash low centre, remain minor.
WEAKEST Crease marks in the right of the black mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush drag in pale arcs, centre of sheet
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, 25 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.
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 1.8A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 6.0.
Engine v23.13, 5 reads. Fixed arithmetic, the same for every painting; the constants were set on a stratified sample of 24 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.