Mascot Similarity Map

This page projects every mascot's neutral pose into a 2D layout using visual similarity — mascots that look alike (color palette, art style, species silhouette) cluster near each other. The embedding is computed with OpenAI CLIP (image side, ViT-B/32), and the 2D layout is produced by UMAP over the 512-dimensional CLIP space. A textual-similarity view based on the prompt descriptions (rather than the images) is a planned follow-up.

Hover any mascot for its name and textbook title; click any mascot to open its full page. Use the Plotly toolbar in the top-right to pan, zoom, or reset the view.