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czml3 is now developed at https://github.com/Stoops-ML/czml3,
see #112 for more context.

:Name: czml3
:Authors: Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez, Eleftheria Chatziargyriou

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czml3 is a Python library to write CZML.

What is CZML?

From the official
CZML Guide <https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/czml-writer/wiki/CZML-Guide>_:

CZML is a JSON format for describing a time-dynamic graphical scene,
primarily for display in a web browser running Cesium.
It describes lines, points, billboards, models, and other graphical primitives,
and specifies how they change with time.
While Cesium has a rich client-side API,
CZML allows it to be data-driven
so that a generic Cesium viewer can display a rich scene
without the need for any custom code.

Installation

You can install czml3 using pip::

$ pip install czml3

or conda::

$ conda install czml3 --channel conda-forge

czml3 requires Python >= 3.10.

Examples

A CZML document is a list of packets, which have several properties.
When using czml3 in an interactive interpreter,
all objects show as nice CZML (JSON)::

from czml3 import Packet
print(Packet())
{
"id": "adae4d3a-7087-4fda-a70b-d18a262a890e"
}
packet0 = Packet(id="Facility/AGI", name="AGI")
print(packet0)
{
"id": "Facility/AGI",
"name": "AGI"
}
packet0.dumps()
'{"id":"Facility/AGI","name":"AGI"}'

And there are more complex examples available::

from czml3.examples import simple
print(simple)
[
{
"id": "document",
"version": "1.0",
"name": "simple",
"clock": {
"interval": "2012-03-15T10:00:00Z/2012-03-16T10:00:00Z",
"currentTime": "2012-03-15T10:00:00Z",
"multiplier": 60
}
},
...

Jupyter widget

You can easily display your CZML document using our interactive widget::

In [1]: from czml3.examples import simple

In [2]: from czml3.widget import CZMLWidget

In [3]: CZMLWidget(simple)

And this would be the result:

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Support

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If you find any issue on czml3 or have questions,
please open an issue on our repository <https://github.com/poliastro/czml3/issues/new>_
and join our chat_!

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Contributing

You want to contribute? Awesome! There are lots of
CZML properties <https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/czml-writer/wiki/Packet>_
that we still did not implement. Also, it would be great to have
better validation, a Cesium widget in Jupyter notebook and JupyterLab...
Ideas welcome!

We recommend this GitHub workflow <https://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow/>_
to fork the repository. To run the tests,
use tox <https://tox.readthedocs.io/>_::

$ tox

Before you send us a pull request, remember to reformat all the code::

$ tox -e reformat

This will apply ruff and lots of love ❤️

License

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czml3 is released under the MIT license, hence allowing commercial
use of the library. Please refer to the :code:LICENSE file.

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Created June 10, 2019
Updated February 23, 2026