A standard CPK model, colored by element, against a stone background.The flat base-pairs are stacked in the center of the strand, perpendicular to the view, and the backbone makes a right-handed spiral around the central, vertical axis.
This model has the same atomic positions and balls colored by element,but now the sticks convey other information: the backbones are red and blue, and the bases are purple (Adenine), en (Thymine), yellow(Guanine), and cyan (Cytosine).