T_381
Record- Date
- 2026.09.25
- Dimensions
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu Bark, Exhibition Edition, half-raw
- Ink
- Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan, Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated, Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink
How it was read
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.
2 families of tone.
Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Two or fewer: Tonal depth is held at the bottom rung whatever the model reads. A dense sheet of many translucent passes can count low here, so Layering is left to the reads. Life inside the black: 0.047 (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
“A radial-arc S-composition in the vein of R3, but heavier and darker. The fluent, layered upper fan is offset by a dense, near-flat lower mass. The sheet is ordinary overall.”
Upper arcs follow the brush's rotation cleanly, with crisp stepped ends. The lower half swells into a heavy slab where the separate strokes are lost.
WEAKEST Bulky, undifferentiated lower dark mass
STRONGEST Fanned arc strokes in the upper head
Dark interior modulation of 0.047 is barely above flat, with only 2 tonal steps. The upper fan shows graded bands, but the lower mass reads as one dense dark.
WEAKEST Lower-left dark mass, nearly flat in colour view
STRONGEST Graded translucent arcs at top and right edge
Many overlapping arcs stay readable at the top and right edges. In the lower body the passes build up into a single dark where their order is lost.
WEAKEST Stacked passes fused in the lower mass
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent arcs on upper right
The vertical S-movement and the two cut-in white notches give the sheet direction. The heavy lower half fills the frame, so the empty paper is only edge leftovers.
WEAKEST Crowded, heavy bottom half with little paper
STRONGEST S-curve rising through the two white notches
The ink is controlled, with clean arc edges. Faint crease and wrinkle lines cross the dark mass, there are scattered drops at top right, and the paper has a beige tint. None disrupts a principal form.
WEAKEST Crease lines crossing the central dark mass
STRONGEST Dry-brush stepped edges of the upper arcs
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, 17 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.
The rating these readings produce, the rules applied and the arithmetic, with Peter's own rating where he gave one, are in the Archive record.
Date
2026.09.25, day 271 of the Crucible Year, one of 2 paintings from that date (1 shown). 13 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: P4 S14 (working title).
T_381 among all 402
Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined.
Materials
- Paper
- Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu Bark, Exhibition Edition, half-raw, China Xuan Paper Co., Ltd. (中国宣纸股份有限公司), made 2026.01.14
- Ink MB6
- Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan, Yi De Ge (Beijing)
- Ink MB8
- Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated, Boku-Undo
- Ink MB9
- Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink, Yi De Ge (Beijing)