Gray K. Microsoft DirectX 9 Programmable Graphics Pipeline

Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735616531, 480 pages.
Learn how to use programmable shaders in the DirectX 9 graphics pipeline—and deliver awesome 3-D graphics to your animations, games, and other multimedia applications. This book distills hundreds of hours of hands-on guidance from the developers on the Microsoft DirectX team—as well as insights from leading-edge video card manufacturers—into step-by-step instruction and best practices for exploiting the programmable pipeline. You’ll see how to program shaders in assembly-language as well as the new high-level shader language (HLSL)—and you get complete code walk throughs for all the sample programs and the DirectX 9 SDK.