Vanessa Moore joins the Cesium team
Sep 08, 2017 by Sarah Chow
We’re happy to announce that Vanessa Moore has joined the Cesium team as a contractor. She’ll be focused on outreach and will work to build the Cesium community through the Cesium blog, showcases, and social media. Vanessa earned her degrees in Advertising and Radio, Television and Film from The University...
Read moreOur Unique Approach to Interviewing Developers
Sep 05, 2017 by Gabby Getz
As developers of an open-source project, we have collaboration at our core. Building community is important to us on every level, from the forum conversations we facilitate to the ecosystem we culture to the people we bring in to the core development team. We invest significant resources in helping all...
Read moreCesium Version 1.37 Released
Sep 01, 2017 by Sarah Chow
We are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.37. Highlights include: Added classificationType to ClassificationPrimitive and GroundPrimitive to choose whether terrain, 3D Tiles, or both are classified. #5770 Fixed depth picking on 3D Tiles. #5676 Fixed a 3D Tiles traversal bug where out-of-view children were being loaded unnecessarily. #5477...
Read morePenn Students Summer Projects with Cesium
Aug 25, 2017 by Sarah Chow
This summer we’ve had three graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania working on special projects for Cesium. Rishabh Shah, Rudraksha Shah, and Byumjin Kim are all in the Computer Graphics and Game Technology masters program. Rishabh Shah. Rishabh Shah is interested in computer graphics and software development, and in...
Read moreFOSS4G 2017 Trip Report
Aug 21, 2017 by Sarah Chow
While the Cesium team has been going to FOSS4G for years, this was my first one, and I had a fabulous time! I had no idea we’d be so busy, talking to so many people who had heard about and wanted to use Cesium, or who were already using and...
Read moreSTK Components and Cesium Road Show
Aug 16, 2017 by Sarah Chow
AGI, the company that founded Cesium, will be hosting info sessions and hand-on training across the United States as part of a “Aerospace & GEOINT Web Applications Seminar and Workshop.” The workshops will demonstrate STK Components, a development kit that conducts aerospace and defense-related analysis, which can then be visualized...
Read moreESLint and Concierge
Aug 11, 2017 by Ottavio Hartman
As an intern on the Cesium team, my work this summer was divided between two projects: packaging our ESLint configuration into a shareable format and creating a GitHub bot to automate common tasks. Style & Syntax Checking with ESLint At Cesium, we like to have our JavaScript code follow a...
Read moreAdaptive Subdivision of 3D Tiles
Aug 11, 2017 by Will Ho
As discussed in our optimized octree algorithm post, a technique for subdividing massive photogrammetry models into tiles must be adaptive to the input to achieve the best performance. New modifications to the 3D tiling pipeline in Cesium Composer allow it to adaptively select a subdivision strategy at each level of...
Read morePhysically-Based Rendering in Cesium
Aug 08, 2017 by Mohamad Moneimne
With the arrival of glTF 2.0 support in Cesium 1.36, Cesium unlocked a new range of new features. The most groundbreaking feature added with this wave is the introduction of Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) as the approach for how Ceisum shades glTF models. As a master’s student at the University of...
Read moreSIGGRAPH 2017 Trip Report
Aug 07, 2017 by Shehzan Mohammed
It was another fantastic year for Cesium at SIGGRAPH 2017. SIGGRAPH is the premier annual computer graphics conference. Here’s a roundup of all Cesium contributions and Cesium-related events at SIGGRAPH 2017. Cartographics Visualization (Carto) BOF The Carto BOF, organized by Theresa-Marie Rhyne, was the first of many events where the...
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