T_419
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
- S13, Tianxuan Ge Dot Ink Becomes Gold, semi-cooked (self-sized), aged
- 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
- 6.50
- Read half
- 35
- Measured half
- 30
Read · V23 (v23.13)
- V23 rating
- 7
- Form
- 2
- Tonal depth
- 2
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2.4
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 87%
- Dark share
- 63%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 9, dead ink 2, water stain 3
Measured · V24, from the 16-bit TIFF
- Mass
- 6 of 10
- Tone
- 8.4 of 14
- Void
- 3.2 of 8
- Flow
- 7.6 of 10
- Balance
- 4.8 of 8
- Measured half
- 30 of 50
- Mass width in mm
- rung 3 of 5
- Mass width against the sheet
- rung 3 of 5
- Evenness of that width
- rung 3 of 5
- Depth of the darks
- rung 4 of 5
- Black plateau
- rung 2 of 5
- Step from mid to dark
- rung 2 of 5
- Evenness inside the darks
- rung 2 of 5
- Spread across tonal bands
- rung 4 of 5
- Voids gathered, not scattered
- rung 2 of 5
- Directions across the sheet
- rung 5 of 5
- Local gesture and edge
- rung 2 of 5
- Balance on the sheet
- rung 3 of 5
- Mass width
- 118 mm
- Depth of the darks (p75 density)
- 1.72
- Largest void, radius
- 280 mm
- Direction alignment
- 0.04
- Left and right asymmetry
- 0.62
- Resolution
- 3.89 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.
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, 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
“Off-centre radial wheel with legible translucent layering and strong rotation out to a dissolving right fan; held back by bulky, near-flat dark wedges and a heavy lower-centre mass. Surface sound, with only minor marks.”
Arcs and spokes follow the brush's travel around the eye; walls hold, but top-left and left wedges and the long right slab remain bulky, filled shapes.
WEAKEST Bulky merged dark mass at bottom centre, loosely shaped
STRONGEST Concentric arcs and tapered radial spokes around the central eye
Arcs and right fan step richly through greys; large darks measure flat (0.042), showing only faint grain when stretched, so depth is not sheet-wide.
WEAKEST Left wedge and horizontal slab read nearly flat in colour
STRONGEST Stepped grey bands in upper arcs and right fan
Many translucent passes overlap in readable order across the upper arcs and right fan, building depth; only the heaviest darks at lower centre swallow earlier passes.
WEAKEST Passes fuse into near-black at bottom centre
STRONGEST Translucent overlapping bars and arcs across the right fan
Off-centre wheel around white eye drives rotation; long slab and fan carry the eye rightward, while the top-right paper forms a strong diagonal counter-shape. Lower centre is heavy.
WEAKEST Heavy lower-centre dark, the densest and least active area
STRONGEST Off-centre wheel spinning out to the dissolving right fan
Ink is controlled, with clean edges and dry-brush fan ends; a seam, small blots and mottling in the darks are minor, mainly visible in the stretched view.
WEAKEST Mottled, slightly cloudy interior of the bottom dark mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush stroke ends along the upper-right fan edge
3 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 3 distinct places, 14 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.
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 7.0.
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.