What short Cesium tutorials do you want to see?

CesiumJS
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Hey everybody!

Over the past month or so I’ve been writing a few short technical articles on doing cool stuff with Cesium: Performance Tips for Visualizing Lots of Points, Learn to Build Cesium Desktop Apps with Electron, and Drawing on 3D Models and Terrain. I would now like to know what cool ideas you all have! Any idea you have comment here and that comment might turn into an article.

  • Tom Ped
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What about adding your own building footprints and extruding heights over terrain? Last I checked this wasn’t doable in Cesium except with 3D tiles.

If 3D tiles is the only way forward, is there a way to create custom 3D tiles? Thanks!

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Animation with glowy particle effects. Like a dot moving along a line.

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How about building Cesium apps that run as native Android or iOS apps?

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Transformations among coordinate systems.

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Thanks everyone for the awesome ideas! If anyone else has any ideas feel free to post them.

  • Tom Ped.
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I second Dan's "Transformations Among Coordinate Systems", specifically dealing with aircraft/rotorcraft that might use common standard reference systems like North East Down (NED), East-North-Up, and other LVLH-like ones, etc... which are all dependent on the geodetic position.

@tomped1 Loved seeing you showcase the Electron example BTW.
If I ever get permission from my customer to show their weather data, I'll share examples of the Electron "app" I built to fuse their data with other time-dynamic sources. It used plotly.js for graphs (implying d3.js of course) and the python-shell npm module to call out to Python routines that manipulated data. Could have used the hdf5 npm but it was a little "touchy" at the time I tried it. :wink:

Cheers,

-Frank

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Creating custom 3D tiles!

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I second transformations among coordinate systems and creating custom 3D tiles!

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Hi,

Thank you to everyone for sharing your awesome ideas! If you haven’t already be sure to post your own ideas or second an idea you like.

Thanks,

Tom Ped

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Thanks for specifying Dan’s idea, very cool stuff. Also, I’m glad you found my Electron showcase useful and moved on to create your own Electron app too.

  • Tom Ped
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what about building an app to sync video with a czml model? like a simplified version of https://cesiumjs.org/demos/powdertracks.html
that will be super cool :slight_smile:

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Very much want to learn 3D tiles.

Thanks.

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Live streams with websockets or HTTP2