{"slug": "mapping-art-styles-onto-scott-mccloud-s-big-triangle-with-multimodal-models", "title": "Mapping art styles onto Scott McCloud's Big Triangle with multimodal models", "summary": "A new interactive map, the Style Atlas, places 365 art styles on Scott McCloud's Big Triangle, using Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash multimodal model to tag images and measure how well comic language describes visual art. The map shows that franchises like Pokémon skew toward the Language corner, while artists like Picasso remain more Reality-led, with a typical tagging miss of about 8% on ten comics and about 13% on McCloud's full printed set. The project, inspired by McCloud's Understanding Comics, aims to test whether AI can map art styles to purpose.", "body_md": "# Pokémon, Picasso, and the Language of Comics: Can AI Map Art Styles to Purpose?\n\nWe put Pokémon and Picasso on McCloud’s Big Triangle to ask: can comic language describe vision — and can AI map art styles to purpose? Inspired by *Understanding Comics*.\n\n## TLDR\n\nScott McCloud’s Big Triangle places pictures between **Reality**, **Language**, and **Picture**. The [Style Atlas](/style-atlas?labels=v3&refs=big-triangle) maps **365** looks there. The published map uses the tagging results of the with **Gemini 3.7 Flash**. Typical miss on the is **~8%** on ten comics (McCloud’s whole printed set **~13%**; **~15%**). Franchises skew **Language**; artists stay more **Reality**-led. **Gemini 3.7 Flash** is the balanced winner of that pass. Try [Pokémon](/style-atlas?labels=v3&refs=big-triangle&jump=style-pokemon) and [Picasso](/style-atlas?labels=v3&refs=big-triangle&jump=artist-picasso).\n\n## Explore again\n\nJump to Pokémon\n\nPublished Labels (Gemini 3.7 Flash tagging results from the gated repair v3 prompt), Big Triangle diamonds on, Pokémon selected.\n\n[Open Pokémon →](/style-atlas?view=triangle&labels=v3&refs=big-triangle&jump=style-pokemon)Flip to Trapezoid\n\nSame Pokémon pin, calculated sister map for pictures that carry a concept.\n\n[Open Trapezoid →](/style-atlas?view=trapezoid&labels=v3&refs=big-triangle&jump=style-pokemon)\n\n* Sample images are for style analysis; we claim no rights to them (fair use). Contact me to request removal.\n\n## Ideas, feedback, or applause?\n\n[RSS](/feed.xml)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mapping-art-styles-onto-scott-mccloud-s-big-triangle-with-multimodal-models", "canonical_source": "https://www.alexxg.com/posts/mapping-the-visual-triangle", "published_at": "2026-08-18 22:11:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 22:41:07.149201+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["Scott McCloud", "Gemini 3.7 Flash", "Style Atlas", "Pokémon", "Picasso", "Google"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mapping-art-styles-onto-scott-mccloud-s-big-triangle-with-multimodal-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mapping-art-styles-onto-scott-mccloud-s-big-triangle-with-multimodal-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mapping-art-styles-onto-scott-mccloud-s-big-triangle-with-multimodal-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mapping-art-styles-onto-scott-mccloud-s-big-triangle-with-multimodal-models.jsonld"}}