requestAnimationFrame

requestAnimationFrame(callback)

A browser-independent function to request a new animation frame. This is used to create an application's draw loop as shown in the example below.

Name	Type	Description
`callback`	requestAnimationFrame~Callback	The function to call when the next frame should be drawn.

Returns:

An ID that can be passed to cancelAnimationFrame to cancel the request.

Example:

// Create a draw loop using requestAnimationFrame. The
// tick callback function is called for every animation frame.
function tick() {
  scene.render();
  Cesium.requestAnimationFrame(tick);
}
tick();

See:

The WindowAnimationTiming interface

Source: Core/requestAnimationFrame.js, line 63

Type Definitions

Callback(timestamp)

A function that will be called when the next frame should be drawn.

Name	Type	Description
`timestamp`	Number	A timestamp for the frame, in milliseconds.

Source: Core/requestAnimationFrame.js, line 70