Visual designers often seek inspiration from Chinese paintings when tasked with creating Chinese-style illustrations, posters, etc. Our formative study (N=10) reveals that during ideation, designers learn the cultural symbols, emotions, compositions, and styles in Chinese paintings but face challenges in searching, analyzing, and integrating these dimensions. This paper leverages multi-modal large models to annotate the value of each dimension in 16,315 Chinese paintings, built on which we propose InkIdeator, an ideation support system for Chinese-style visual designs. InkIdeator suggests cultural symbols associated with the task theme, provides dimensional keywords to help analyze Chinese paintings, and generates visual examples integrating user-selected keywords. Our within-subjects study (N=12) using a baseline system without extracted dimensional keywords, along with two extended use cases by Chinese painters, indicates InkIdeator's effectiveness in creative ideation support, helping users efficiently explore cultural dimensions in Chinese paintings and visualize their ideas. We discuss implications for supporting culture-related visual design ideation with generative AI.

翻译：视觉设计师在接到创作中式插图、海报等任务时，常从中国画中寻求灵感。我们的形成性研究（N=10）表明，设计师在构思过程中会学习中国画中的文化符号、情感、构图与风格，但在搜索、分析和整合这些维度方面面临挑战。本文利用多模态大模型对16,315幅中国画中各维度的价值进行标注，并在此基础上提出了InkIdeator——一个用于中式视觉设计的构思支持系统。InkIdeator能建议与任务主题相关的文化符号，提供维度关键词以帮助分析中国画，并能整合用户所选关键词生成视觉示例。我们使用一个未提取维度关键词的基线系统进行的受试者内研究（N=12），以及两位中国画家的扩展用例，表明了InkIdeator在支持创造性构思方面的有效性，它能帮助用户高效探索中国画中的文化维度并将其想法可视化。本文讨论了利用生成式AI支持文化相关视觉设计构思的启示。