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Background credits

The city backgrounds are AI-generated scenes, not documentary photographs. The current New York City set uses the photographic references below to guide materials and lighting while retaining the site's established composition. The Detroit and San Sebastián images use the earlier September 27 set. No endorsement by the photographers is implied.

New York City

• Gapstow bridge of Central Park in November — Bryan Schorn / Brickfeet Images, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• NYC Central Park at Night — Martin Thoma, CC0.

References for the archived Detroit reconstruction

• Detroit Skyline from Windsor, Ontario — Warren LeMay (w_lemay), CC BY-SA 2.0.
• DETROIT — KOCHESSE80, CC BY-SA 4.0.

References for the archived San Sebastián reconstruction

• Vista de San Sebastián desde el monte Urgull — edu1975, CC BY 3.0.
• San Sebastian at night from Monte Urgull — Phillip Maiwald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
• Monte Igueldo, San Sebastian — Marco Almbauer, CC0.

The generated reconstructions in release 20260928-photographic-v3 are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reference photographs retain their individual licenses. The current Detroit, San Sebastián, and Ann Arbor images come from the earlier release.