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// Samples a texture with Catmull-Rom filtering, using 9 texture fetches instead of 16.
// See http://vec3.ca/bicubic-filtering-in-fewer-taps/ for more details
float4 SampleTextureCatmullRom(in Texture2D<float4> tex, in SamplerState linearSampler, in float2 uv, in float2 texSize)
{
    // We're going to sample a a 4x4 grid of texels surrounding the target UV coordinate. We'll do this by rounding
    // down the sample location to get the exact center of our "starting" texel. The starting texel will be at
    // location [1, 1] in the grid, where [0, 0] is the top left corner.
    float2 samplePos = uv * texSize;
    float2 texPos1 = floor(samplePos - 0.5f) + 0.5f;

    // Compute the fractional offset from our starting texel to our original sample location, which we'll
    // feed into the Catmull-Rom spline function to get our filter weights.
    float2 f = samplePos - texPos1;
    //float2 f2 = f * f;

    // Compute the Catmull-Rom weights using the fractional offset that we calculated earlier.
    // These equations are pre-expanded based on our knowledge of where the texels will be located,
    // which lets us avoid having to evaluate a piece-wise function.
    float2 w0 = f * ( -0.5 + f * (1.0 - 0.5*f));
    float2 w1 = 1.0 + f * f * (1.5*f - 2.5);
    float2 w2 = f * ( 0.5 + f * (2.0 - 1.5*f) );
    float2 w3 = f * f * (-0.5 + 0.5 * f);

    // Work out weighting factors and sampling offsets that will let us use bilinear filtering to
    // simultaneously evaluate the middle 2 samples from the 4x4 grid.
    float2 w12 = w1 + w2;
    float2 offset12 = w2 / (w1 + w2);

    // Compute the final UV coordinates we'll use for sampling the texture
    float2 texPos0 = texPos1 - 1;
    float2 texPos3 = texPos1 + 2;
    float2 texPos12 = texPos1 + offset12;

    texPos0 /= texSize;
    texPos3 /= texSize;
    texPos12 /= texSize;

    float4 result = 0.0f;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos0.x, texPos0.y), 0.0f) * w0.x * w0.y;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos12.x, texPos0.y), 0.0f) * w12.x * w0.y;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos3.x, texPos0.y), 0.0f) * w3.x * w0.y;

    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos0.x, texPos12.y), 0.0f) * w0.x * w12.y;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos12.x, texPos12.y), 0.0f) * w12.x * w12.y;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos3.x, texPos12.y), 0.0f) * w3.x * w12.y;

    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos0.x, texPos3.y), 0.0f) * w0.x * w3.y;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos12.x, texPos3.y), 0.0f) * w12.x * w3.y;
    result += tex.SampleLevel(linearSampler, float2(texPos3.x, texPos3.y), 0.0f) * w3.x * w3.y;

    return result;
}



Texture2D<float4> g_Tx;
sampler g_S;

float4 main( float2 uv : TEXCOORD0 ) : SV_Target
{
    return SampleTextureCatmullRom( g_Tx, g_S, uv, float2(512,512) );
}