Insanely Cool Video Effects – In WPF!

Here’s a video on Channel 9 from last year showing the incredible things you can do with hardware accelerated graphics in WPF.  I found it totally awesome and was amazed by the incredible performance.

Here’s a textbox on a waving cloth.  I can see somebody doing something with a flag with this effect:

Here’s a 3D window.

I don’t know what the practical applications are in my line of work, but it sure is cool.

The original video includes some more effects that I would describe as more normal video effects such as morphing and color transforms, but with great performance and some extra goodies and it all seems to work with video.