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Ed Mackey edited this page Nov 27, 2013
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We're planning the following tutorials. These will initially be blog posts, and a page on the Cesium website will serve as the table of contents.
Beginner Tutorials (in psuedo table-of-contents order, but we can write them in any order)
Cesium Up and Running @mramato- A simple representitive Cesium app
Imagery Layers - @pjcozziTerrain - @pjcozzi- Tiling imagery using free tools (commonly asked on the forum)
- Billboards and Labels
- Polygons and Polylines
- Picking
Camera - @bagnell- Authoring CZML (not Cesium specific) - probably several
- Using CZML in Cesium - probably several
- Importing Vector Data
- Importing Models - @pjcozzi
- Widgets
- Using Cesium with Dojo
- Using Cesium with jQuery
- Using Cesium with OWF
- Columbus view and 2D
- Volumes
- Sensors
- Materials - @pjcozzi
- Deployment
- Cesium for NASA World Wind Developers
- Cesium for Google Earth Developers
- Cesium for Google Maps Developers
Advanced Tutorials
- Implementing an ImageryProvider
- Implementing a
TerrainProvider
- Debugging aids for rendering code - bounding volumes, command selection, and multiple frustums
- Writing custom rendering code - @pjcozzi
Other Tutorials
- Tutorials for building specific example apps
- Using Cesium for specific domains
- Space - viewing in LLVH and ICRF, ...
- Geospatial - terrain, imagery, layers, image processing, vector data, ...
- Performance best practices
TODO: The Sandcastle examples, architecture overview and reference documentation should link to the tutorials.
- Be representative, not exhaustive. Give readers specific examples, guiding principles, and a sense of what is possible. Don't feel the need to mention every function and property; that's what the reference documentation is for.
- Be concise, direct, and friendly.
- Tutorials are more informal and less comprehensive than in-depth guides.
- General Outline
- Brief introduction
- Short code walkthrough with screenshots that builds on the Cesium Viewer Widget Sandcastle example
- Selected details
- Resources - related Sandcastle examples, reference documentation, the forum, etc.