Pixel-in-Gene

I am totally blown away by the possibilities of Pixel Shaders and already finding a great variety of uses for it. To get started on Pixel Shaders I would recommend stopping by Greg Schecter’s blog and reading his series of articles on this subject. It was definitely a starting…

HLSL is the defacto language that you will be using when writing Pixel Shaders for WPF. But before you can use it, you will have to compile the HLSL to pixel shader byte code. The DirectX SDK ships with the FXC compiler that can do this job for you. However this compiler is very…

Hello everyone! Over the past couple of weeks I have been really really busy. In addition to my day job I have taken up an interesting side project: Writing a Book . Given my history and background you can take a pretty good guess at the topic of the book. There is some…

It was a welcome change to do a little bit of Flash/Flex programming after a heavy dose of WPF ;-). The AIR app In a recent internal project I had to build a simple movie player for a bunch of SWFs created in Flash. The player itself was more like a showcase tool that would loop…

Morphing of 3D meshes can be very cool to play with. I am sure many of you must have seen this in action in movies / tv or even CAD like programs. Its a technique where a set of vertices that describe a 3D mesh change their positions over a period of time into a new surface. In…

The Carousel view has become a pretty popular visualization for a list of items. It consists of a set of items arranged circularly with the selected item brought to the front, just the like the figure below: In a recent discussion on the WPF Disciples Group , I got a little…

Over the past couple of days I finally got a chance to get back to ElementFlow and give it some overhaul. I have done some integral changes to the core parts of the control so now its leaner and more powerful. There are also a few client-facing changes. Thanks to all the users of…

In my previous post I mentioned about a really simple 3D engine that can be used for experimenting with lines, polygons and shapes in the 3D space. Here is a short video that shows what you can do with it. The video demonstrates: Drawing lines in 3D (note the XYZ axis) Drawing…

Over the last few days I have been exploring some interesting ideas in my current project. One of the requirements was to visualize some data in 3D. Of course you would say: “that should be easy: WPF has Viewport3D”. And certainly you are right. In fact that was my initial…

Yesterday, May 15th I gave a talk at the New York City’s .Net User Group. As you can expect my talk was around WPF and in fact very similar to the one I gave at the NJ .Net UG. Since I did not change much in my presentation, let me point to my earlier blog post where you can…