How to View Gryponyx in 3D
Gryponyx 3D Viewer runs an Early Jurassic hooked-claw sauropodomorph from South Africa - length about 5 m, mass poorly constrained. Drag, zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click a body region.
Open the Gryponyx page and take the camera
Open the Gryponyx 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Gryponyx 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 Gryponyx controls under the canvas
Under the Gryponyx 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 (about 5 m)
Read the Gryponyx facts panel and click a body part
The Gryponyx facts panel lists length about 5 m (panel baseline 5 m), height about 1.6-2.0 m at the hips (panel baseline 1.8 m), mass poorly constrained with one secondary estimate about 485 kg, the Early Jurassic window about 201-190 million years ago in the Upper Elliot Formation, South Africa, herbivore diet (sauropodomorph), and naming from Broom in 1911 with a history entangled and synonymized with Massospondylus - Vasconcelos and Yates argued Gryponyx is distinctive. 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 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 Gryponyx how-to guide is not
The Gryponyx 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 claim mass is tightly constrained from fossils, 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 Gryponyx size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Gryponyx 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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