Faster and Smaller 3D Tiles with WebP Image Compression
We’re happy to announce that 3D Tiles now supports Google’s WebP image format. WebP lossy compression is 25-34% smaller than JPEG images at the equivalent quality, and WebP lossless is 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. This means that any 3D Tiles that require massive textures - such as...
Read moreStream Massive glTF Models with 3D Tiles and Cesium ion
Cesium ion now supports uploading glTF models as input into our 3D tiling pipeline, unlocking a bevy of massive 3D content for streaming to Cesium applications. Because of glTF’s emphasis on interoperability, there’s a good chance that your tools can already export glTF models. 3D Tiles is built on glTF,...
Read moreCesium Going to GEOINT 2019 - Submit Your Proposal
Proposals for lightning talks at the GEOINT 2019 Symposium are due Friday. The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s (USGIF) annual symposium draws attendees from industry, academia, and government, including defense. This is a great opportunity to share your geospatial-intelligence work. This year’s symposium will be June 2–5 in San Antonio,...
Read moreThe latest issue of magazine makes the case that open source and open standards will drive the future of GEOINT in its cover story “An Open Frontier” by Matt Alderton—and prominently features Cesium as part of this movement. We couldn’t agree more with this assessment. With the ever-growing supply of...
Read moreWe Won an Award for Our Work on Open Standards
The Khronos Group recently gave Patrick a Khronie Award for his work advancing glTF! We couldn’t be prouder. glTF is the open standard 3D runtime format for 3D models. Its continued improvement and advancement is thanks to the hard work of the 30+ members of the Khronos 3D Formats Working...
Read moreContinuing with our commitment to produce the highest quality 3D tilesets, we’ve updated Cesium ion and our on-premise tools to produce photogrammetry tilesets delivering improved visual quality with the same or better performance. To recap, Cesium ion’s photogrammetry tilesets use lightweight, simplified placeholder tiles for smoother streaming. CesiumJS renders these...
Read moreWe are thrilled to announce that 3D Tiles has been adopted as a community standard for sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D content by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international consortium for promoting interoperable standards in the geospatial industry. This collaboration between the geospatial and computer...
Read moreOur mission to bring you higher resolution curated terrain in Cesium ion continues! We’ve curated additional 1-meter resolution terrain data across various parts of the US and incorporated it into Cesium World Terrain. Besides more accurate visualizations, the increased resolution of Cesium World Terrain brings more precise line and area...
Read moreWe are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.54. As part of this release, CesiumJS supports 3D tilesets using WebP images which are smaller and stream faster. Support has been added to the Cesium ion Photogrammetry and CAD/BIM tilers, and will be available in the next release. Support for...
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