How to View Stegosaurus in 3D
Stegosaurus 3D Viewer runs a plated Stegosaurus at about 9 m in your browser - drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person for scale, and click the head, a back plate, the tail, or a leg to read a part fact.
Open the Stegosaurus page and take the camera
Open the Stegosaurus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit the Stegosaurus 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.
Use the four Stegosaurus controls under the canvas
Under the Stegosaurus 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 breathing and leg sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the scene's own scale, derived from the about 9 m published length (the scene draws Stegosaurus at 12 world units and scales the person by the same units-per-metre factor); tap again for Hide human
Read the Stegosaurus facts panel and click body parts
The Stegosaurus facts panel carries five rows: Length 9 m, Weight 4.0 t, When it lived 152-145 Mya (Late Jurassic), Diet Herbivore, and Described - genus named by Marsh 1877; S. stenops named 1887, Colorado. A short click - pointer movement under 8 pixels, so a click and not a drag - on the head, neck, body, a leg, the tail, a back plate, or a tail spike swaps in a part note; click empty space to return to the species sheet. First paint is a procedural Stegosaurus with a double row of kite-shaped plates and a spiked thagomizer tail; after that the page fetches a published model, stegosaurus.glb (about 423 KB, CC0 1.0, by Quaternius via Poly Pizza), and swaps it in, at which point the status line says it is showing a real 3D model of this species. Skin and color are an artistic reconstruction; plate and spike function is debated (display, defense, thermoregulation) - the page does not claim one settled use.
What the Stegosaurus how-to guide is not
The Stegosaurus 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 claim soft-tissue or color accuracy, does not claim one settled function for plates or thagomizer, and does not invent game score or win states. For the size story and the trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Stegosaurus size comparison.
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