Cesium

Cesium began in 2011, when a team of developers at aerospace software company Analytical Graphics, Inc. (now Ansys) set out to create an application to visualize objects in space. Led by computer graphics expert Patrick Cozzi, the project produced a virtual globe and was released as open source in 2012. Cesium spun out as an independent company in 2019 and today provides the foundational open platform for an interoperable geospatial ecosystem, offering a mix of open source and commercially available software.

Cesium began in 2011, when a team of developers at aerospace software company Analytical Graphics, Inc. (now Ansys), set out to create an application to visualize objects in space. Led by computer graphics expert Patrick Cozzi, the project produced the world's most accurate, performant, and time-dynamic virtual globe. Dubbed "Cesium" after the element that makes atomic clocks famously accurate, it was released as open source in 2012. Cesium spun out as an independent company in 2019 and today provides the foundational open platform for an interoperable geospatial ecosystem.

The platform for 3D geospatial; an ecosystem built on openness, advancing open standards like 3D Tiles and supporting interoperability and collaboration.

• CesiumJS

  Open source, best-in-class for accurate 3D visualization on the web.

• Cesium for Unreal

  Open source, first high-precision (WGS84) globe for game engines.

• Cesium for Unity

  Open source, 3D geospatial capability for the Unity ecosystem.

• Cesium for O3DE

  Open source, WGS84 globe for the open source Open 3D Engine.

• Cesium for Omniverse

  Open source, 3D geospatial capability in NVIDIA Omniverse.

• 3D Tiles

  The foundational OGC community standard for the 3D geospatial ecosystem.

1. 1Cesium: The Platform for 3D Geospatialcesium.com
2. 2About Cesium – Cesiumcesium.com
3. 3Why Cesium – Cesiumcesium.com
4. 4Digital Transformation – Cesiumcesium.com
5. 5Cesiumwikidata.org