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Image Credits

Every face in Meet the Forebears is an ASCII rendering, converted at build time from a freely-licensed source image. The sources are listed below with their authors and licenses — each links to its Wikimedia Commons file page, where the license can be checked.

subjectauthorlicensesource
Ada LovelaceAntoine ClaudetPublic domainCommons file page
Alan TuringElliott & FryPublic domainCommons file page
Claude ShannonTekniska museet, Sweden (photographer unknown)CC BY 2.0Commons file page
Walter PittsFrancis BelloPublic domainCommons file page

The ASCII renderings are derivative works of the images above. Where a source is licensed CC BY or CC BY-SA, the rendering carries the attribution listed here. Public-domain sources yield public-domain renderings; take them.