TheRealMJP

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TheRealMJP

// The following code is licensed under the MIT license: https://gist.github.com/TheRealMJP/bc503b0b87b643d3505d41eab8b332ae

// 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;