Cesium Version 1.18 Released
We’re pleased to announce the release of Cesium 1.18. Here are the highlights of the new release:
- Reduced the amount of CPU memory used by terrain by ~25% in Chrome.
- Added a Sandcastle example to “star burst” overlapping billboards and labels.
- Added VRButton which is a simple, single-button widget that toggles VR mode. Cardboard for mobile is supported. More VR devices will be supported when the WebVR API is more stable.
For more details and the full list of changes, see the change log.
Overlapping Billboard Star Burst
News
- Tom Pedbereznak has joined the Cesium team and is working on Cesium and 3D Tiles.
- Richard Lee is working on the gltf-pipeline as part of an open-source project through the University of Pennsylvania.
- Thanks to Max Limper for his first contribution to Cesium: glTF material improvements.
- The team that built create.io has formed a consulting group, cleverMAP, offering Cesium consulting services.
- We have a new guest blog post on Cesium and webpack, by Mike Macaulay.
- Greg Angevine of Cube Cities, Inc., presented at Carleton University about how Cube Cities uses Cesium.
Plan Ahead
- Many of the FOSS4G NA proposals submitted so far cover Cesium. The deadline is February 8, so be sure to get your proposal in.
- In March AGI will be offering an STK CZML exporter webinar.
Software
Be sure to check these out:
- Cesium lib for Drupal by Pol Dellaiera, @drupol.
- cesiumpy 0.1.0, a Python wrapper for Cesium, with detailed documentation.
- ScalaCZML, a CZML library in scala.
New Showcases
