T_061
Record- Date
- 2026.02.16
- Dimensions
- 140 × 70 cm
- Rating
- 5.5
- Paper
- Qing Yi Half-Raw Xuan
- Ink
- Kuretake Shogei Kiwami, Yi De Ge Zhonghua, Boku-Undo Bokkou
The rating
T_061, rated 5.5
The combined score, out of 10: V23's reading of the photograph as the read half and V24's twelve tests on the 16-bit file as the measured half, added and divided by 10. The scale is relative to this archive. How each half is made is on the Method page.
- Form
- 2.0 · built
- Tonal depth
- 2.0 · modelled
- Layering
- 2.0 · legible
- Composition
- 2.0 · working
- Material and surface
- 1.0 · flawed
- Mass
- 6.1 of 10
- Tone
- 7.8 of 14
- Void
- 6.4 of 8
- Flow
- 6.8 of 10
- Balance
- 3.2 of 8
How it was measured
What V24 measured.
Plain physical facts with no model involved. Across the year they track how the practice changes. On one sheet they cannot say whether a mark is any good. Millimetres read a few percent high, because the photographs are cropped just inside the paper's edge.
The width of the ink mask along its medial axis.
Optical density at the 75th percentile of the sheet.
The radius of the largest circle of open paper.
How far the marks align across the sheet. Lower means they run several ways.
Left and right asymmetry of the ink. Lower is more even.
Pixels to the millimetre in the TIFF these were measured from, with the studio light removed.
Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.13, on 2026.11.04: 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: 0.057 (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
“Layered translucent masses thrust rightward from the left edge with a lively comb stroke and shaped paper, but ordinary overall: the lower mass is cloudy and bulky, overlaps murk at centre-left, and the bottom block sits static.”
Upper translucent planes and comb stroke hold as made forms; lower central mass is bulky and loosely bounded; bottom block is slab-like with stiff walls.
WEAKEST Lower central mass, its outline soft and bulky
STRONGEST Comb-ended black stroke at upper centre
Comb stroke, lower mass and bottom block show grain, banding and stepped density; upper-left dark plane stays comparatively cloudy. Modulation clears the flat limit without being deep.
WEAKEST Large dark plane at upper left, broadly cloudy inside
STRONGEST Banded dry-brush grain in the bottom grey block
Upper planes stack translucently and their edges read clearly; lower down at centre-left the passes merge, so the sequence is not legible across the whole sheet.
WEAKEST Centre-left overlaps merging into murk between the two masses
STRONGEST Translucent planes overlapping at the top of the upper mass
Two masses push from the left edge against shaped pale paper at right, with a column descending to the block; the block sits static and the left is crowded.
WEAKEST Bottom block, static and loosely attached to the masses above
STRONGEST Masses thrusting rightward from left edge into shaped empty paper
Lower central mass has blotchy, cloudy mottling visible in the colour view and confirmed when stretched; bristle edges elsewhere are controlled; faint pale stain on paper lower right.
WEAKEST Cloudy mottled wash inside the lower central mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush bristle edges on comb stroke and bottom block
5 distinct places, 1 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, 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. A major flaw holds Material and surface at rung 1.
V23's rules and arithmetic, and every figure under its own name, are in the Archive record.
Date
2026.02.16, day 50 of the Crucible Year, one of 8 paintings from that date (1 shown). 31 works were registered in the fourteen days before. Paintings are dated by the day their batch was registered and photographed; each was finished that day or within the few days before. Phase: P1 Warm-up (working title).
T_061 among all 419
Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined.
Materials
- Paper
- Qing Yi Half-Raw Xuan, Jingxian Sichijian Xuan Paper Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd., made unknown
- Ink MB1
- Kuretake Shogei Kiwami, Kuretake
- Ink MB2
- Yi De Ge Zhonghua, Yi De Ge (Beijing)
- Ink MB3
- Boku-Undo Bokkou, Boku-Undo
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