# Eterna3D Ribosome and beyond

**URL:** https://forum.eternagame.org/t/eterna3d-ribosome-and-beyond/3978
**Category:** Tools
**Tags:** eterna3d
**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/eterna3d-ribosome-and-beyond/3978 "2021-09-20T22:50:33Z")
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### Author: ![Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/user_avatar/forum.eternagame.org/eli_fisker/32/4453_2.png) [@Eli\_Fisker](https://forum.eternagame.org/u/Eli_Fisker)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/eterna3d-ribosome-and-beyond/3978/2 "2021-09-20T23:19:52Z")

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First a massive thanks to Pragya! You rock! I think the new 3D interface is beautiful. Eterna flat RNA society joins the spherical age.

Unfortunately this thought first popped up after the townhall. I think I immediately got distracted by the fine M&M/smarties chocolate bases. Anyway here it comes.

I think there is one thing concrete that would benefit player understanding of how the bases fills in space.

The smarties are all the same size. But I would like to have the C and U be half the size of the G and A, because that is more realistic.

Chimera also have this for its colorful stick version

 ![billede](https://d2he8ud106d9gn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/1/17d87de8fb15fbbda32ed407cfc9836a361d0e22.png)  
Image from Omei’s [Introduction to Chimera for EteRNA Players](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ebb0b3lGHALGkTYS_9w9-9m3YTA7Zhf6XUB4dP7hGko/edit?usp=sharing) (page 11)

The bases are not of equal length. A and G are long bases and C and U are short.

A while back I wrote a [story](https://forum.eternagame.org/t/eterna-faq-by-players-for-players/2243/24) about it.

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