Credits
Last updated 6 October 2026
Artwork
There are no stock photos on this site. The mark, the diagrams, the Sphere, the agent’s record on the home page and every field note’s cover are drawn in code, so each picture is generated from its page and is unique to this site. The Edinburgh skyline on some covers is a simplified, stylised drawing of the Old Town roofline, not a survey. The charts in the field notes are drawn from the figures in the notes themselves.
Data
Every figure on the site belongs to the source named beside it, and the register lists them all. Public sector information is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where that licence applies, including the GOV.UK designated standards lists behind the declaration checker.
Typefaces
Both typefaces are open source, licensed under the SIL Open Font License, and served from this site.
| Typeface | Designer |
|---|---|
| Inter and Inter Display | Rasmus Andersson |
| JetBrains Mono | JetBrains |
Software
| Library | Used for |
|---|---|
| Astro | Site framework |
| Tailwind CSS | Styling |
| GSAP | Animation in the Sphere, the record and the plan builder |
| three.js | The Sphere |
Sources for Edinburgh’s AI story
The timeline on the about page draws on these sources. Any mistakes are ours; please tell us if you spot one.
- 1614, Napier’s logarithms: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
- 1831, Maxwell is born: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
- 1963, AI research begins: informatics.ed.ac.uk
- 1966, Machine Intelligence: informatics.ed.ac.uk
- 1973, FREDDY II builds a toy car: nms.ac.uk
- 1974, Department of AI: informatics.ed.ac.uk
- 2014, The Data Lab: thedatalab.com
- 2018, The Bayes Centre: gov.uk
- 2026, A national supercomputer: epcc.ed.ac.uk
Sound
The optional interface sounds are synthesised in your browser with the Web Audio API. There are no audio files.