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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2008
Greg D. Schechter, Seattle, WA (US);
Gerhard Schneider, Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf A. Michail, Redmond, WA (US);
Brendan Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Greg D. Schechter, Seattle, WA (US);
Gerhard Schneider, Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf A. Michail, Redmond, WA (US);
Brendan Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for controlling a shader declaratively. A declarative programming model enables declarative statements to be used that control an instantiation of a shader in a declarative presentation framework. A shader-based effect that was specified declaratively is instantiated programmatically for rendering graphic effects for a software application. Declarative statements are sent to a shader processor to enable a shader to render the graphical effect customizations for the software application. A method is also described for utilizing a declarative programming model as a multiple pass effect that controls and encapsulates a set of shaders to be run during a multiple pass operation.