SIGGRAPH 2018 Autonomous Driving Simulation and Visualization BOF
Sep 17, 2018 by Sarah Chow
At SIGGRAPH we teamed up with Toyota Research Institute to co-organize the first ever Autonomous Driving Simulation and Visualization BOF. The room was packed, with more than 120 attendees. People from many areas and industries gathered to see how computer graphics and simulation techniques improve autonomous vehicle testing. Patrick Cozzi...
Read moreDriving US Highway 101 with Cesium World Terrain
Sep 14, 2018 by Sarah Chow
Cesium World Terrain, the high-resolution global terrain tileset hosted by Cesium ion, combines multiple data sources into a single quantized-mesh terrain tileset. Terrain for the West Coast of the United States was recently improved to 50 cm resolution. Higher resolution from the Canada border to the Mexico border means you...
Read morepeakery Shows World's Climbing Peaks in 3D with Cesium
Sep 05, 2018 by Sarah Chow
We have a new showcase up on our demos page! peakery peakery is a guide to the world’s mountains, allowing users to find mountains, plan routes, and share their trips. The site features more than 600,000 peaks, each with an interactive 3D map powered by the high-resolution Cesium World Terrain....
Read moreCesium Version 1.49 Released
Sep 04, 2018 by Gabby Getz
We are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.49. Highlights include: Several performance improvements and fixes to the 3D Tiles traversal code. #6390 Added heightReference to BoxGraphics, CylinderGraphics and EllipsoidGraphics, which can be used to clamp these entity types to terrain. #6932 Terrain altitude is now taken into account...
Read moreNew United States Terrain up to 0.5m Added to Cesium World Terrain
Aug 29, 2018 by Tom Fili
Fresh high-resolution terrain across the United States was added to Cesium World Terrain. New 3m terrain now covers large sections of the United States, including major cities such as San Francisco, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Raleigh, and New Orleans, to name just a few. The quarry...
Read moreSIGGRAPH 2018 Trip Report
Aug 23, 2018 by Gary Li
Many of us on the team just got back from this year’s Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Graphics (SIGGRAPH) conference. SIGGRAPH for us is always exhausting but simultaneously exhilirating and enormously rewarding. This year’s SIGGRAPH was in Vancouver, Canada. We started our week with the WebGL...
Read moreGeocoding in Cesium using Pelias
Aug 14, 2018 by Julian Simioni
This is a guest post by Julian Simioni, a core maintainer of the Pelias geocoder and co-founder of Cleared for Takeoff, Inc., which helps organizations of all sizes with their geocoding needs. Pelias is the open-source geocoder used by Cesium ion. - Sarah A few weeks ago, the Cesium team...
Read moreCesium at SIGGRAPH 2018
Aug 06, 2018 by Sarah Chow
SIGGRAPH is next week! The conference is August 12–16 in Vancouver. Send me a note if you’d like to meet up with the Cesium folks during the conference. Or you can find us at any of these Birds of a Feather sessions: Carto BOF Monday, August 13, 12pm–1:30pm ACM SIGGRAPH...
Read moreEruptions, Earthquakes & Emissions Built on Cesium
Aug 03, 2018 by Sarah Chow
We have a new showcase up on our demos page! Eruptions, Earthquakes & Emissions The Smithsonian’s Eruptions, Earthquakes & Emissions app offers a time-lapse animation of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes since 1960, as well as sulfur dioxide emissions from volcanoes since they began to be monitored. Axis Maps, which developed...
Read moreCesium Version 1.48 Released
Aug 01, 2018 by Tom Fili
We are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.48. Highlights include: Added support for loading Draco compressed Point Cloud tiles for 2-3x better compression. Added TimeDynamicPointCloud for playback of time-dynamic point cloud data. Improved support for polygon entities using perPositionHeight, including supporting vertical polygons. For the full list of...
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