Entries tagged with pixel shader - Channel 9

Graphics improvements in WPF 4

Jaime Rodriguez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:54:00 GMT

David Teitlebaum and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the graphics improvements in .NET 4. David demoes cached composition, pixel shaders 3, and animation easing functions. He also explains discusses rounding, and ClearType Hint.

Related resources:
Post for this series includes all the new features in WPF 4.
David's and Tim's demos

Note: the graphics are fast, we captured screen on software and it did not keep up, that is why the horribly sloooow(yawn) refresh rate on the demos. Try the demos, if you have .NET 4 beta2.

Advanced Silverlight Rendering Techniques from Rick Barraza

Adam Kinney — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:25:00 GMT

Rick Barraza from Cynergy has been doing some great work showing how to use WritableBitmap and PixelShaders to create some very interesting effects in Silverlight. Check out both his recent posts Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps and Fluid Dynamics in Silverlight.

Scale 9 Grid for Silverlight from Peter Blois

Adam Kinney — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Peter Blois has created a Scale 9 grid in Silverlight. Using pixel shaders and Blend extensibility, Peter has a found a solution with design-time support and good performance.

Silverlight WritableBitmap Performance Test from Rene Schulte

Adam Kinney — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:49:00 GMT

Rene Schulte has been testing multiple implementations of dynamic bitmap images in Silverlight. He's posted his learnings along with the source code explaining how his test harness works.

Photoshop style Blend Modes for WPF with Shaders

Adam Kinney — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:24:00 GMT

Cory Plotts has taken on Robby Ingebretsen's original challenge and has created a Photoshop style blend modes library for WPF. This means that using Cory's library you can use Blend modes you are familiar with from Photoshop while developing a WPF Application. Familiar modes like Linear Burn, Hard Light, Overlay are all executed using pixel shaders and specifically multi-input shader effects. The source code and binaries are available on Cory's blog.

Disable Buttons with a Grayscale Effect in WPF

Adam Kinney — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Ward Bell demonstrates how to disable image-based buttons in LOB apps with a Grayscale Pixel Shader in WPF. Not only does this save you from twice the image assets to maintain, but its also very simple to do. And you feel cool, because you're using Pixel Shaders.

WPFFX running in the Silverlight 3 Beta

Adam Kinney — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:58:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez came back from MIX09 and thought "Hey, I bet my WPFFX library could run in the new Silverlight 3 beta". So he added a few #ifdefs, compiled and waa-laa! The WPFFX library is running in the Silverlight 3 beta and we have video to prove it.

Jaime has all of the details in his blog post about the success.

PhotoSuru, a WPF-based photo experience

Adam Kinney — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:48:00 GMT

PhotoSuru is a new photo viewing sample from the WPF team. The sample provides a unique way to browse a collection of photos, taking advantage of WPF features such as Pixel Shaders, Adaptive Layout and Custom Themes. The application is based on the recently released SCE Starter Kit which is available for download including the full source code. In this video, Nicholas Armstrong provides a short demonstration on how the application works.

Shazzam - A Tool for Creating WPF Pixel Shader Effects

Adam Kinney — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:25:00 GMT

Walt Ritscher walks us through building a custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using Shazzam, his latest creation. Along the lines of other useful tools mentioned, Kaxaml and LINQPad, Shazzam is free to download and use. Props to Walt for generating both C# and VB code for your Shader Effect.

WPF Effects Library

Adam Kinney — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:37:00 GMT

WPF 3.5 SP1 offers killer graphic capabilities that were demonstrated in the last video with David Teitlebaum. In this video, David has dropped by to help us announce the WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library. The library includes 23 Effects and 26 Transitions and is available with source code at http://codeplex.com/wpffx.

After shooting the video, we realized we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions. To see the library in action check out the WPF Effects Library Demo video.

WPF Effects Library Demo

Adam Kinney — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:36:00 GMT

After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and Transitions. Cue the music...

Download the WPF Effects Library at http://codeplex.com/wpffx

WPF Pixel Shader Parts

Adam Kinney — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Nikola Mihaylov came by the studio to explain what a WPF Pixel Shader really is and the code involved and making one. He has a great post on his blog explaining how to get started with Pixel Shaders along with a custom VS project template to make it even easier.

In his demonstration Nikola shows off his own effects along with Anders Bursjöö’s Grayscale Effect and Rakesh Ravuri's Wave Reflection Effect.