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HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developersby Walt Ritscher Copyright © 2012 Walt Ritscher.. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472.. O’Re

HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML

Developers

Walt Ritscher

Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo

HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers

by Walt Ritscher

Copyright © 2012 Walt Ritscher All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Preface ix Foreword xv

1 Shader 101 1

2 Getting Started 11

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Compile the HLSL Code 24

3 Commonplace Pixel Shaders 29

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4 How WPF and Silverlight Use Shaders 57

5 Using Expression Blend and Visual Studio with Shaders 85

6 Using the Shazzam Shader Editor 103

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