Credits & sources

Every photograph in these projects comes from Wikimedia Commons under a public-domain or Creative Commons licence, and each was checked to be at least 2048 pixels on its long edge and sharp at full size. Photographers and licences are listed below; click through for the original file and full licence terms.

Kāla — timeline

Deśa — atlas

Saṅgam — reference images

3D scans, map data, type & code

• 3D — Shiva Nataraja (1930.331): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access, CC0 · via Sketchfab
• 3D — Gandhara Buddha, 3rd century CE: Minneapolis Institute of Art, CC0 · via Sketchfab
• 3D — Sarnath Buddha, British Museum: scan by artfletch, CC BY · via Sketchfab
• 3D — Didarganj Yakshi: scan by dokunod · via Sketchfab (embedded, editorial use)
• Map boundaries: Survey of India state boundaries compiled by DataMeet (CC BY-SA 2.5 / ODbL), simplified with mapshaper and projected with D3 (Lambert conformal conic).
• Typefaces: Cormorant Garamond, Manrope, Noto Serif Devanagari / Tamil / Telugu / Bengali — all SIL Open Font License, bundled via Fontsource.
• Code libraries: GSAP (animation), Lenis (smooth scroll), D3 (map projection & zoom).
• Artwork: “The Tree of Life and the Tarpa Dance” (2026) and all Warli/Kalamkari motifs are original vector drawings by the team, created in code. The tanpura drone is synthesised live in the browser.
• Text: written by the team from museum catalogue records and standard art-history references.