Given how powerful modern image generation models have become, could we use them to visualize congressional briefings via CSPAN broadcasts and turn hours-long detail-heavy legislative-jargon-filled speeches into succinct easy-to-understand infographics that render the functioning of democracy instantly accessible to the nation? Despite the enormous improvements in image models, this goal has remained stubbornly out of reach due to the models' historically poor ability to render text. Google's new Nano Banana Pro model debuts both a special emphasis on text rendering and major improvements in being able to synthesize and distill large amounts of complex details into simple visuals. Let's see what it looks like to apply Nano Banana to a CSPAN broadcast of a bipartisan healthcare plan briefing led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA). For these experiments we used only the public enterprise Gemini and Nano Banana APIs and no data was used to train or tune any model.
The end result is absolutely astonishing: not only is Nano Banana Pro able to render an entire briefing into everything from superhero comics to watercolor and oil paintings to poster infographics, but it is able to succinctly distill down this complex briefing into a single infographic that not only captures all of its key details, but conveys it simply enough that an average American who doesn't follow politics could instantly understand the gist of the plan. Imagine advocacy groups making posters like these of bills they support to distribute via social media and even printing them to hang in public areas to promote the plan!
Let's start with the two-step traditional workflow: asking Gemini 3 Pro to create an image generation prompt from the briefing transcript that we can then hand to Nano Banana to make the image:
Write a prompt for an image generator that will represent the core details of this briefing in a single image.
Gemini Pro 3 yields the following results, which unfortunately are designed to produce only a generic press conference-style photograph:
A photorealistic news-style image of a press conference held on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. A large, diverse group of U.S. House Representatives—men and women in professional business suits—stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a display of bipartisanship. At the center, two lawmakers (one male, one female) stand at a podium covered in microphones. To the side of the podium is a large presentation easel displaying a chart with the text 'COMMON GROUND 2025' and 'Bipartisan Health Care Framework.' The background features the stone architecture of the Capitol building. The lighting is natural daylight, and the mood is serious, cooperative, and urgent.
Let's render this image through both the base Nano Banana and the new Nano Banana Pro. Unfortunately, while quite realistic-looking, this isn't anything like what we're looking for in terms of explaining this plan to the public. Worse, the second image even places Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy as leading the briefing:
Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image):
Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview):
What we really want is an explainer graphic, so let's ask for Gemini 3 for a prompt to explicitly do that:
Create a prompt for an illustrated explainer of the following briefing that covers all of its key details.
This time we get a much more interesting image generation prompt:
Create an image based on the following instructions: Role: You are an expert visual communicator and policy analyst. Task: Create an outline and visual description for a 5-panel illustrated explainer (infographic or comic strip style) titled: "Common Ground 2025: The Bipartisan Plan to Save Health Care Costs." Source Material Context: A bipartisan group of House Representatives (led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer [D] and Jen Kiggans [R]) held a press conference on December 5, 2025, to unveil a framework to prevent a massive spike in health insurance premiums before the end of the year. Visual Style: Clean, modern political infographic style. Use a color palette emphasizing "Purple" (bipartisanship) alongside Red, White, and Blue. Use icons like clocks, shields, and medical crosses. Content Requirements per Panel: Panel 1: The Looming Cliff (The Problem) Visual: A ticking clock showing "December 31, 2025" and a graph showing a sharp vertical spike in costs. Key Text: Explain that "Enhanced Premium Tax Credits" are set to expire at the end of the year. Stat to Highlight: Without action, 20-22 million Americans will see premiums rise significantly (up to 175% or ~$20k/year for a family of four). Panel 2: The Coalition (The Who) Visual: A group of diverse lawmakers standing together, half wearing red ties/scarves, half wearing blue, shaking hands or holding a document titled "Common Ground 2025." Key Text: A bipartisan coalition of House Democrats and Republicans is breaking the gridlock. They argue doing nothing is "not an option" and are prioritizing families over partisan politics. Panel 3: Step One - The Immediate Fix (The Bridge) Visual: A sturdy bridge crossing a gap. Key Text: The Short-Term Solution: A two-year extension of the tax credits to stop January price hikes. Details: The plan is "paid for" by adding income caps, guardrails to prevent abuse, and rooting out fraud. Panel 4: Step Two - The Long-Term Reform (The Future) Visual: A checklist or a roadmap leading to "Summer 2026." Key Text: The Structural Reforms: A commitment to pass deeper legislation before the midterms. Specific Proposals to list: Hospital billing transparency. PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Manager) reform. Elimination of $0 premiums (replaced with need-based support). Implementation of HSAs (based on the Cassidy bill). "Give Kids a Chance Act" (pediatric cancer/rare disease treatments). Panel 5: The Deadline (Call to Action) Visual: A calendar circle around December 18. Key Text: The group is calling for a House and Senate vote by December 18 to ensure the fix is signed before January 1st. Tagline: "A Red, White, and Blue solution—not a Red or Blue one."
Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image):
Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview):
We can see that Pro yields a massively better result. What if we eliminate the prompt generation stage (given Nano Banana's advanced reasoning abilities) and just provide the briefing directly to the models? In other words, we just provide the transcript of the entire briefing and our prompt directly to Nano Banana, without an initial stage of asking Gemini 3 to make an image generation prompt like we did before. Let's also ask for a superhero-style comic:
Create a superhero comic that narrates the attached briefing. It should cover all of its key details. It should be beautiful classic superhero comic style.
Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image):
Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview):
Let's try a more artistic style and given Nano Banana's struggles with text generation and the importance of text to these infographics, we'll just use Nano Banana Pro from here forward:
Create a beautiful poetic illustrated explainer in a watercolor style with bleeding color washes and fine lines that narrates the attached briefing. It should cover all of its key details.
How about a classical Baroque oil painting in watercolor style to add an attention-getting visual twist?
Create a beautiful illustrated explainer in a Baroque oil painting style with bleeding color washes and fine lines that narrates the attached briefing. It should cover all of its key details.
Or true Baroque oil style? Note how here it attempts to capture all of the detail visually, without using text, true to the style it is replicating:
Create a beautiful illustrated explainer in an "old master" Baroque oil painting style that narrates the attached briefing. It should cover all of its key details.
On a more useful note, what about a poster-style explainer that can be hung on the wall to outline the briefing in a single image?
Create a large illustrated explainer poster that narrates the attached briefing as a single large poster that can be printed and hung on a wall that outlines all of the core details. It should cover all of its key details.
The resulting poster is nothing short of astonishing: a professional-grade infographic poster that succinctly distills down this complex briefing to a single image that not only captures all of its key details, but conveys it simply enough that an average American who doesn't follow politics could instantly understand the gist of the plan. Imagine advocacy groups making posters like these to distribute via social media and even printing them to hang in public areas to promote the plan. While there are a few warped text details, especially in the smaller text areas, the overwhelming majority of the text is almost flawless and the visual layout, structure and metaphors Nano Banana chose are absolutely ideal.
