How to View Ichthyovenator in 3D
Ichthyovenator 3D Viewer runs an Early Cretaceous Laos spinosaurid with a sinusoidal sail - length about 8.5-10.5 m (Size vs human uses 9.5 m), mass about 2-2.4 tonnes. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click a body part.
Open the Ichthyovenator page and take the camera
Open the Ichthyovenator 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Ichthyovenator 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 sail-backed spinosaurid silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Ichthyovenator controls under the canvas
Under the Ichthyovenator 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 (9.5 m within the published about 8.5-10.5 m holotype range)
Read the Ichthyovenator facts panel and click a body part
The Ichthyovenator facts panel lists length about 8.5-10.5 m (Paul 2016 about 8.5 m; Molina-Perez and Larramendi about 10.5 m; Size vs human uses 9.5 m), standing height about 2.5-3 m at the hips, mass about 2-2.4 tonnes, the Early Cretaceous window about 125-113 million years ago in the Gres Superieurs Formation of Laos, carnivore diet (often fish), naming from Allain et al. 2012 (I. laosensis), and the sinusoidal sail that dips over the hips - distinct from Spinosaurus (Southeast Asia vs North Africa). A short click - not a drag - on head, sail, or body surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction; sail membrane detail beyond the neural-spine outline is interpretive. 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 Ichthyovenator how-to guide is not
The Ichthyovenator 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 8.5-10.5 m / 2-2.4 tonnes ranges, does not invent soft-tissue or sail-membrane 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 Ichthyovenator size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Ichthyovenator 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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