T_386
Record- Date
- 2026.10.16
- Dimensions
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- Half-Cooked Red Star Mo She 6-Foot Bark Xuan Paper, self-sized from October 2026
- Ink
- Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan, Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated, Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink, Shisan Yue Calligraphy and Painting Ink
How it was read
Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.8, on 2026.10.16: 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: 0.044 (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
“This is a radial fan like R3, but much heavier and flatter: 80% coverage, mostly one black family, and flat dark interiors. The arcs are coherent and the white eye anchors the sheet, but tonal life and layering are limited.”
Arc bands follow brush travel around the white circle, but the central right and lower dark fans read as filled slabs rather than made strokes.
WEAKEST Bulky filled dark mass right of centre
STRONGEST Radial arc bands with dry-brush tails, upper right
Dark share 0.78, two tonal steps, interior modulation 0.044 is flat; greys appear only at the fan tips, and the main masses are uniform black inside.
WEAKEST Uniform black interior of right-centre fan
STRONGEST Grey stepped fan tips at upper edges
Successive passes are legible at the fan edges, top right and left, but across the lower and central interiors the passes merge into one dark field.
WEAKEST Overlaps fused to black in lower centre
STRONGEST Stacked translucent fan tips, upper right edge
Radial movement around the white eye and the diagonal empty top-left give direction, but 80% coverage leaves the bottom and right crowded and heavy.
WEAKEST Crowded, heavy bottom band
STRONGEST Off-centre white circle with radiating fan
Ink is controlled and the dry-brush is used on the right; crumple creases show in the dark interiors, and small spatter dots sit in the top-left paper.
WEAKEST Paper creases visible through dark masses
STRONGEST Dry-brush streaking in right 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, 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.
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
2026.10.16, day 292 of the Crucible Year, one of 12 paintings from that date (9 shown). 0 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_386 among all 402
Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined.
Materials
- Paper
- Half-Cooked Red Star Mo She 6-Foot Bark Xuan Paper, self-sized from October 2026, China Xuan Paper Co., Ltd., made 2026.04.08
- 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)
- Ink MB10
- Shisan Yue Calligraphy and Painting Ink, Shisan Yue (Thirteenth Month)
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