Thank you for your permission and reply. I will follow the accepted method of citation.

Cheers, Dona

Good day!

Is is appropriate to request permission to use this illustration if appropriately cited? If so, would you please provide appropriate citation?

The illustration came through as a search for 'neural network' this date and it matches a conceptual framework for the work I do. The illustration would be backgrounded and modified to highlight certain nodes as representations of various people elements in my business.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Cheers!

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A bit different function that always places vertices symmetrically:

LayersGraph[layers_]:=
Module[{
    uni=Table[Unique[],#]&/@layers,
    coor=Flatten[Table[{k,#}&/@(Range[#]-Mean[Range[#]]&/@layers)[[k]],{k,Length[layers]}],1]},
Graph[
    Flatten[uni],
    Flatten[Outer[Rule,#1,#2]&@@@Partition[uni,2,1]],
VertexCoordinates->coor,
EdgeShapeFunction->"Line",VertexSize->.3]
]

Usage that gives the image above:

LayersGraph[{2, 2, 3, 7, 2, 5, 3, 4, 1}]

A bit different version would go like:

LayersGraph[layers_]:=
Module[{
    vert=TakeList[Range[Total[layers]],layers],
    coor=Flatten[Table[{k,#}&/@(Range[#]-Mean[Range[#]]&/@layers)[[k]],{k,Length[layers]}],1]},
Graph[
    Flatten[vert],
    Flatten[Outer[Rule,#1,#2]&@@@Partition[vert,2,1]],
VertexCoordinates->coor,
EdgeShapeFunction->"Line",GraphStyle->"SmallNetwork"]
]

LayersGraph[{2, 2, 3, 7, 2, 5, 3, 4, 1}]