<p>An illustration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem" class="extiw" title="en:Dining philosophers problem">dining philosophers problem</a>.<br></p>
Philosophers clockwise from top - Plato, Konfuzius, Socrates, Voltaire and Descartes.
Benjamin D. Esham (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bdesham" title="User:Bdesham">bdesham</a>)
CC BY-SA 3.0
<p>Created by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bdesham" title="User:Bdesham">bdesham</a> using OmniGraffle; post-processed in GraphicConverter.  I used some other Commons images to make this one:
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<ul><li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birke_Holz.JPG" title="File:Birke Holz.JPG">Birke Holz</a> (CC BY-SA 3.0 by Philipp Zinger)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spaghetti.jpg" title="File:Spaghetti.jpg">Spaghetti</a> (CC BY-SA 2.0 by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Avatar" title="User:Avatar">Tim Bartel</a>)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato.png" title="File:Plato.png">Plato</a> (public domain)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konfuzius.jpg" title="File:Konfuzius.jpg">Konfuzius</a> (public domain)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates.png" title="File:Socrates.png">Socrates</a> (public domain)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voltaire_oval.jpg" title="File:Voltaire oval.jpg">Voltaire oval</a> (public domain)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frans_Hals_-_Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes.jpg" title="File:Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes.jpg">Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes</a> (public domain)</li></ul>