Custom Bitmap Effects - Getting started - WPFpedia.com (The WPF Resource Guide)

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MikeJames on 2010-06-01

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The simplest possible custom effects project is enough for you to see how it all works and to move on to building your own effects that do something useful. This is an introduction to using HLSL in WPF.

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"It is difficult to get started with custom bitmap effects because they involve the use of two languages - a .NET language and HLSL - High Level Shader Language. Not only this but HLSL is a language that applies to a completely different architecture to the one you have been working with. HLSL targets the machines GPU -Graphics Processor Unit - not the CPU. As such learning HLSL means learning how to use the GPU and how it and other graphics features link into DirectX - the graphics system that WPF is built on."