FOSS4G 2018 Trip Report
May 25, 2018 by Shehzan Mohammed
We’re back from a great FOSS4G NA. With over five hundred attendees, the conference in St. Louis was packed with three days of talks, demos, and parties that gave us a great chance to mingle with the Cesium community and larger geospatial community. Stopping by the booth. One of the...
Read moreHybrid Multi-Frustum Logarithmic Depth Buffer
May 24, 2018 by Dan Bagnell
Cesium’s rendering engine is built for high-precision rendering. When rendering planetary scale even at just meter resolution, stock game engines experience precision problems, including z-fighting and jitter. Z-fighting is when two triangles are close together and cover the same pixel but there is not enough precision in the depth buffer...
Read moreCesium Guide to FOSS4G NA 2018
May 09, 2018 by Sarah Chow
FOSS4G NA is next week! We’re going to St. Louis, Missouri, for the conference May 14–16. This is one of our favorite events of the year. Come by our booth to see awesome demos from the Cesium community, meet the core dev team, talk data fusion with 3D Tiles, play...
Read moreosgEarth Adds Support for Cesium ion
May 02, 2018 by Jason Beverage
This is a guest post by Jason Beverage of Pelican Mapping. Jason is a long-time Cesium user and contributor; the particle system and imagery slider are among his contributions. The post is about osgEarth’s added support for Cesium ion. Get in touch if there are other places you would like...
Read moreGet Your Cesium ion Community Account
May 01, 2018 by Patrick Cozzi
Today we are pleased to provide free Community accounts to the new Cesium ion platform. With this account you can Upload and organize your own imagery and terrain, tile these 3D assets in the cloud, and then stream them to your CesiumJS apps. Combine your terrain with Cesium World Terrain....
Read moreCesium Version 1.45 Released
May 01, 2018 by Sarah Chow
We are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.45. With this release, CesiumJS now connects to Cesium ion by default for base imagery, terrain, and geocoding. With a Cesium ion account you can upload your own imagery and terrain for cloud-based 3D tiling. You can also combine your terrain...
Read moreNYC Meetup on Driving Simulation with WebGL and Cesium
Apr 30, 2018 by Vanessa Moore
If you’re in New York City on Monday, May 7, join us for a WebGL Meetup to learn more about autonomous driving simulation with WebGL and Cesium. Patrick Cozzi will be demonstrating how WebGL and Cesium work together to provide a strong foundation for autonomous driving simulation. He will also...
Read moreMountains & Lakes of Canada with Cesium World Terrain
Apr 25, 2018 by Vanessa Moore
Canada with Cesium World Terrain. With the new Cesium World Terrain, a high-resolution global terrain tileset hosted by Cesium ion, parts of Canada can now be viewed in 30 m resolution. The physical geography of Canada varies greatly and spans from the North Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic Ocean....
Read moreSean Lilley Receives IEEE Award
Apr 19, 2018 by Vanessa Moore
Sean Receiving IEEE Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award. Congratulations to Sean Lilley from the Cesium team! Sean was awarded the IEEE Philadelphia Section’s “Delaware Valley Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award” for 2018 at an event held at the Union League of Philadelphia on April 14. The...
Read moreCesium to Exhibit at GEOINT 2018
Apr 18, 2018 by Vanessa Moore
We’re attending the upcoming GEOINT 2018 Symposium with AGI, founder of Cesium. This year’s GEOINT Symposium will be held April 22–25 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. We will be highlighting our ability to fuse together very large point clouds, intricate 3D models, and massive terrain datasets to...
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