Embedding
Drop a live Helix viewer into a paper, a slide deck, a blog post, or a course page. The embed is a real viewer — interactive, with the same controls as the full page.
The iframe
Every public simulation exposes an embed URL at /embed/<id>. Drop that into an iframe:
<iframe
src="https://simedo.work/embed/sim_8x4n2"
width="100%"
height="500"
style="border: 0; border-radius: 12px;"
allowfullscreen
></iframe>URL parameters
The embed URL accepts a few options:
?t=120— start at frame 120.?rep=cartoon— initial representation (cartoon,stick,surface,spacefill).?chain=A— focus camera on a specific chain.?ui=minimal— hide the side panels for a slide-friendly view.?autoplay=1— start the timeline playing on load.
For papers
For figures in a manuscript, render a high-DPI screenshot from the view you embed, with a caption that mentions the simulation URL. Reviewers can click through to the live viewer if they want to see motion; print readers see a clean static figure. The viewer page exposes a one-click PNG export from the share menu.
For talks
Use ?ui=minimal&autoplay=1so the embed starts moving the moment the slide is shown. Most presentation tools (Keynote, Google Slides, Notion) let you paste a URL and it'll render as a live frame.
For courses
We're working on a lightweight assignments layer: an instructor creates a question against a simulation, the embed shows the prompt next to the viewer, and students submit short written answers linked to a specific timestep. Email us if you'd like early access.
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