Cesium Version 1.13 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Cesium 1.13. Highlights include:
- Improved Cesium compatibility on mobile GPUs, such as the Mali-400MP.
- Support for GroundPrimitive which works much like Primitive but drapes geometry over terrain.
- Support for z-ordering of GroundPrimitive instances via Scene.groundPrimitives.
For more details and the full list of changes, see the change log.
Several GroundPrimitives draped over Mount St. Helens.
Other Cesium news from August
- We welcomed Sean Lilley to the Cesium team as a 3D software developer.
- We also welcomed Sarah Chow as a freelance editor, with special focus on polishing the Cesium Blog and our Demos and Showcases.
- Most of the Cesium team attended SIGGRAPH and presented talks at the Caro BOF, WebGL BOF, and our own Cesium BOF. Be sure to check out our trip report.
- We posted a blog detailing our plane masking implementation for fast hierarchical culling.
- We introduced 3D Tiles, a new open specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets.
- We also launched a new demo of over 1.1 million buildings in New York City, showing off just a fraction of what 3D Tiles can do.
New Showcases
We’ve added 9 new showcases that demonstrate the diverse range of applications and industries that benefit from Cesium.
Upcoming events
- Patrick Cozzi will be presenting The state of WebGL and glTF at the graphical web 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from September 23rd to 26th.
- I will be giving a talk on Cesium and 3D Tiles at JS.Geo in Philadelphia, PA on October 8th.