How to View Ampelosaurus in 3D
Ampelosaurus 3D Viewer runs a Late Cretaceous French titanosaur with osteoderm armor - length about 14-16 m (Size vs human uses 15 m), mass about 8-10 tonnes. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click a body part.
Open the Ampelosaurus page and take the camera
Open the Ampelosaurus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Ampelosaurus with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene. After first paint a license-clean CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF may swap in automatically from the CDN; if that load fails the page stays on the procedural long-necked sauropod silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Ampelosaurus controls under the canvas
Under the Ampelosaurus canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle body sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest length ratio used by the viewer (15 m within the published about 14-16 m range)
Read the Ampelosaurus facts panel and click a body part
The Ampelosaurus facts panel lists length about 14-16 m (Vila et al. 2022 largest individual about 13.9 m; Wikipedia synthesis about 15-16 m; Size vs human uses 15 m), standing height about 4-5 m at the hips, mass about 8-10 tonnes, the Late Cretaceous early Maastrichtian window about 71-66 million years ago in the Marnes Rouges Inferieures Formation of France, herbivore diet, naming from Le Loeuff 1995 (A. atacis), and osteoderm armor about 25-28 cm (plate, bulb, and spine morphologies) that sets it apart among sauropods. A short click - not a drag - on head, neck, or body surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction; osteoderm layout on the procedural mesh is simplified relative to fossil morphologies. When the CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF by seth the yutyrannus via Printables loads, the status text notes a real model with that credit - a stylized reconstruction, not a laser scan. This model is not a fossil-accurate skeleton.
What the Ampelosaurus how-to guide is not
The Ampelosaurus how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), does not invent one precise length or weight beyond the disclosed about 14-16 m / 8-10 tonnes ranges, does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, does not invent game score or win states, and does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Ampelosaurus size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Ampelosaurus 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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