Interactive 3D viewer for a plant cell and an animal cell, built with Three.js. You can rotate, pan, and zoom the model, and the page includes a numbered key of the labeled organelles.
I made this as a way to look at cell structures without being stuck with flat textbook diagrams.
- Plant cell — vacuole, Golgi apparatus, smooth and rough ER, nucleus, nucleolus, mitochondria, cytoplasm, chloroplast, cell wall
- Animal cell — cell membrane, lysosomes, mitochondria, nucleus
Models are loaded from .gltf files in plantcell/, animal_cell/, and animal_cell1/. Textures live in each model's textures/ folder. Licenses for the models are included next to each one in license.txt.
No build step. Because the page uses ES modules and loads local .gltf files, you need to serve it over HTTP rather than opening the file directly:
python3 -m http.server
Then open http://localhost:8000/index.html for the plant cell or index2.html for the animal cell.
- Three.js (loaded from a CDN via importmap)
- GLTFLoader for the models
- OrbitControls for camera interaction