EMMA - Field Research 06

Right before I started this research I saw some posters in our Game Lab at school from Game Art students who had to place their artwork and the work of their idol(artists) inside a big triangle. It took me a while to figure out the basic meaning of this triangle, but then I finally found this small poster who had copied its source: 'Scott McCloud's Big Triangle'. In McCloud's book 'Understanding Comics' he explains the visual triangle in which all visual works can be placed.
The three 'points' of the triangle are defined as follows:

"Reality", "The Picture Plane" and "Meaning"

Reality stands for resemblance to our present and visible reality. The Picture Plane divides a recognizable photograph from a resemblance towards a more abstract collection of colours and shapes. Meaning hovers from a picture to a concrete word: an understanding.

Firstly I wonder how more complex designs relate themselves to this triangle. These are created for characters, but I wonder how it would relate for an environment. Secondly, I wonder how fiction (in comparison with this 'reality') places itself in this triangle, or if it should be placed differently.