Cesium b11

b11 - 2012-12-03

Highlights include:

• Improved lighting in Columbus view and on polygons, ellipsoids, and sensors.
• Fixed atmosphere rendering artifacts and improved Columbus view transition.
• Fixed jitter artifacts with billboards and polylines.
• Added TileMapServiceImageryProvider. See the Imagery Layers Sandcastle example.
• Added Water material. See the Materials Sandcastle example.
• Added SkyBox to draw stars. Added CesiumWidget.showSkyBox and CesiumViewerWidget.showSkyBox.

See the change log for a full list of changes

Cesium b10

b10 - 2012-11-02'

Highlights include:

• CentralBody now allows imagery from multiple sources to be layered and alpha blended on the globe. See the new Imagery Layers and Map Projections Sandcastle examples.
• Added WebMapServiceImageryProvider.
• Improved middle mouse click behavior to always tilt in the same direction.
• Added getElementIndex to Matrix2, Matrix3, and Matrix4.

See the change log for a full list of changes

Cesium b9

b9 - 2012-10-01

Highlights include:

• The new Sandcastle live editor and demo gallery replace the Sandbox and Skeleton examples.
• Improved picking performance and accuracy.
• Added EllipsoidPrimitive for visualizing ellipsoids and spheres. Currently, this is only supported in 3D, not 2D or Columbus view.
• Added DynamicEllipsoid and DynamicEllipsoidVisualizer which use the new EllipsoidPrimitive to implement ellipsoids in CZML.

See the change log for a full list of changes

Cesium b8

b8 - 2012-09-05

Highlights include

• All Quaternion operations now have static versions that work with any objects exposing x, y, z and w properties.
• Added support for nested polygons with holes. See Polygon.configureFromPolygonHierarchy.
• Added support to the renderer for view frustum and central body occlusion culling. All built-in primitives, such as BillboardCollection, Polygon, PolylineCollection, etc., can be culled. See the advanced examples in the Sandbox for details.
• Added writeTextToCanvas function which handles sizing the resulting canvas to fit the desired text.
• Added support for CZML path visualization via the DynamicPath and DynamicPathVisualizer objects. See the CZML wiki for more details.

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Cesium b7

b7 - 2012-08-01

Highlights include:

• Added Cartographic.fromDegrees to make creating Cartographic instances from values in degrees easier.
• Added addImage to TextureAtlas so images can be added to a texture atlas after it is constructed.
• Added Scene.pickEllipsoid, which picks either the ellipsoid or the map depending on the current SceneMode.
• Added Event, a new utility class which makes it easy for objects to expose event properties.
• Added TextureAtlasBuilder, a new utility class which makes it easy to build a TextureAtlas asynchronously.
• Added Clock, a simple clock for keeping track of simulated time.

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Cesium b6a

b6a - 2012-06-20

Highlights include:

• Added CentralBody.northPoleColor and CentralBody.southPoleColor to fill in the poles if they are not covered by a texture.
• Added Polygon.configureExtent to create a polygon defined by west, south, east, and north values.
• Added functions to Camera to provide position and directions in world coordinates.

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Cesium b5

b5 - 2012-05-15

Highlights include:

• Added PerformanceDisplay which can be added to a scene to display frames per second (FPS).
• Labels now correctly allow specifying fonts by non-pixel CSS units such as points, ems, etc.
• Added Shapes.computeEllipseBoundary and updated Shapes.computeCircleBoundary to compute boundaries using arc-distance.

See the change log for a full list of changes