Keys while this view has focus: arrow keys turn the model, plus and minus zoom, 0 resets the view, Space pauses or plays, A turns auto-turn on or off, L shows or hides labels, N steps through the parts of this plate and reads what each is, Enter acts on the current part, left and right square brackets move to the previous or next plate. Alt plus Shift plus K turns these keys on for the whole page, and Alt plus Shift plus S opens the settings menu. A text explanation of the plate follows the controls.
A pictorial primer in fourteen plates
The viewport keys always work while the 3D view has focus. Turning the option on makes them work anywhere on the page, which stops the arrow keys and Space from scrolling it.
Turn it over. Cut it open. Slow it down. Then watch what the atoms and electrons are actually doing, and how they add up to a blinking light, a gate, and a computer.
Numbers on the plates come from the sources above. Pictures are teaching cartoons: sizes, speeds and counts are rescaled so you can see them, and each plate says where. Nothing on this page loads from the network unless you tick Google Fonts in the settings menu.
Made by AirplaneBug using Claude
Facts and sources have been assembled by Claude and are not yet human-verified—use them at your own discretion.