Credits

Where the photography comes from

Every photograph on this site is public-domain or CC0 material — no stock-licence entanglements, no AI-generated imagery. Each image is rendered through the same brand treatment: a green duotone built from the VirtEngine palette, screened with a 15° halftone dot pattern so every photograph reads as one system.

The treatment is applied by a deterministic pipeline in the repository (scripts/), so an image can always be re-derived from its source. Provenance for each file is listed below.

Provenance

The library

One row per image: the treatment applied, the source it was drawn from, and the licence it carries.

Two people shaking hands across a table.

closing-hands

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1920×1080 webp

Kristin Hardwick · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A laptop open on a desk in a work setting.

developer-workstation

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Radek Grzybowski · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A graphics card being installed in a compact computer.

gpu-card

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Keijiro Takahashi · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A data-centre aisle: racks of servers receding into the distance.

hero-infrastructure

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1920×1080 webp

rawpixel · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A high-performance computing cluster, racks in a row.

hpc-supercomputer

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1920×1080 webp

U.S. Department of Energy · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

Hands holding a document during a verification step.

identity-document

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

rawpixel · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

People checking a phone together — an active liveness step.

identity-liveness

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Brodie Vissers · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A person's face in profile, lit from the side.

identity-portrait

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1100×1375 webp

Joseph L. Etchingham · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

Shelves in a library, looking up through the stacks.

learn-library

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Patrik Goethe · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

An ethernet cable seated in a network switch port.

marketplace-hardware

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

rawpixel · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

An operations room with wall displays.

network-earth

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1920×1080 webp

UrusHyby · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

An Ethernet switch connected to coloured network cables.

network-switch

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

Source code on a laptop screen.

open-source-screen

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Christina Morillo · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A close view of a computer motherboard and its components.

platform-board

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Lenharth Systems · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

Server racks in a provider data centre.

provider-datacenter

Duotone on night ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Derrick Coetzee from Berkeley, CA, USA · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A technician working on hardware in a server room.

provider-technician

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Derrick Coetzee from Berkeley, CA, USA · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A person working at a computer.

saas-workstation

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

PxHere · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A hand writing in a ledger — metered usage being settled.

settlement-ledger

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Green Chameleon · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A padlock and key — bonded stake under slash conditions.

staking-security

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

rawpixel · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

A hard disk drive with its cover removed.

storage-drive

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Shams948 · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

Hands using a laptop beside an open notebook.

tenant-laptop

Duotone on paper ground · halftone screen · 1200×800 webp

Pixel.la Free Stock Photos · CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

Images are cropped and toned for the site; the underlying photographs are unmodified in substance. If you believe an image has been misattributed, contact hello@virtengine.com .