How to View Compsognathus in 3D
Compsognathus 3D Viewer runs a chicken-sized Late Jurassic European theropod in your browser. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person for scale, and click a body region for a fossil-sourced fact.
Open the Compsognathus page and take the camera
Open the Compsognathus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Compsognathus 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 theropod silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Compsognathus controls under the canvas
Under the Compsognathus 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 panel length ratio used by the viewer (1.25 m)
Read the Compsognathus facts panel and click a body part
The Compsognathus facts panel lists length about 0.7-1.4 m across specimens (German about 0.7-0.9 m; French adult about 1.25-1.4 m; panel baseline 1.25 m), hip height about 0.20-0.29 m (panel baseline 0.29 m), mass about 0.3-3.5 kg (German about 0.3-0.6 kg; French about 2.5-3.5 kg; panel baseline 3 kg), the Late Jurassic window about 150 million years ago from Solnhofen (Germany) and Canjuers (France), carnivore diet (small vertebrates), and naming by Wagner in 1859. A short click - not a drag - on a body region surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction. When the CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF by seth the yutyrannus via Printables 747520 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 Compsognathus how-to guide is not
The Compsognathus how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), it does not invent a single mass outside the published 0.3-3.5 kg range, it does not blend German and French specimen figures into one headline number, it does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, it does not invent game score or win states, and it does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Compsognathus size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Compsognathus 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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