Oriental Hues • Digital Realms: Visual Translation and AI Generative Practice of Chinese Traditional Colors

Cheng Zhaohui

Color ›› 2026, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2) : 2-6.

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Oriental Hues • Digital Realms: Visual Translation and AI Generative Practice of Chinese Traditional Colors

  • Cheng Zhaohui
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As the core visual gene of Eastern aesthetics, traditional Chinese colors carry the philosophical speculation, cultural context, and natural aesthetic wisdom accumulated by the Chinese nation over thousands of years. Taking the digital work "Oriental Hues · Digital Realms: An Experimental Suite on the Contemporary Translation of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics", jointly created by the author and the postgraduate team under supervision, as a practical sample, this paper focuses on the visual translation and AI-generated creation of traditional Chinese colors. Centered on four series—"Five Elements Cosmos" "Oriental Color Connotations" "Chilechuan" and "Color · Image · Threshold: Twenty-Four Frames of Solar Terms"—it explores the design approaches and morphological expressions of traditional Chinese colors in digital interpretation from four dimensions: philosophy, cultural lineage, nature, and time. The study aims to provide practical and referential cases for the contemporary revitalization of traditional Chinese colors and the construction of a digital realm of Eastern aesthetics.

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Traditional Chinese Colors / Oriental Aesthetics / Digital Generation / Contemporary Translation / Cultural Activation

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Cheng Zhaohui. Oriental Hues • Digital Realms: Visual Translation and AI Generative Practice of Chinese Traditional Colors[J]. Color. 2026, 44(2): 2-6

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