# Hanyu zodiac illustration series

These images are original AI-generated illustrations created for the Hanyu Culture experience on 2026-08-05 with OpenAI's built-in image generation. They are not photographs of historical objects and should not be presented as museum artifacts.

## Visual system

- Subject language: twelve handcrafted Chinese zodiac ceramic sculptures
- Shared material: matte celadon-sage glaze with restrained terracotta and brushed-brass details
- Shared setting: deep bottle-green mineral-plaster background and a warm limestone plinth
- Shared lighting: soft museum light from the upper left with a subtle warm rim light
- Shared composition: centered, eye-level, three-quarter editorial still life with generous negative space
- Dragon direction: a wingless Chinese serpentine dragon, not a Western dragon

## Website assets

`zodiac-generated-ensemble.webp` is the twelve-animal hero image. The individual files from `zodiac-generated-rat.webp` through `zodiac-generated-pig.webp` are used by the interactive animal detail panel. Every full-size 1000 × 1000 WebP has a 560 × 560 `-small.webp` counterpart for narrow screens.

The generated source PNGs remain in the local Codex generated-image archive. The optimized WebP files in this folder are the project assets used by the website.