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5. Possible Easy Default
A-B-C
Incubating concepts. Defined as a system. Delivered end-to-end.

7. Materials

14. Tint
Arithmetic
Composite
Overlay
Blur
BorderEffect
Source=Noise
Backdrop
Exclusion
Tint

17. Motion

23. Depth

30. Load six assets with a
SufraceBrush
var cubeMapFaces = new
CompositionSurfaceBrush[]
{
compositor_.CreateSurfaceBrush(await
SurfaceLoader.LoadFromUri(new Uri("ms-
appx:///Resources/XPos.png")))
(repeat for remaining 5)
Create Skybox
var skyBox =
compositor.CreateSkyBox();
skyBox.Source(cubeMapFaces);
root.Children.InsertAtTop(skyBox);
Target Skybox with
EnvironmentLight

35. Depth Sorting
Radial Gradient
Seamless
TransitionsParticle System
Animated Text
Animated Shapes
New Effects
Input Animations
Environment Lights & Cube Maps
Physics Animations
Linear Gradients
Lighting Improvements
Dispatcher QueuesTooling
Debugging
Subsurface Scattering Projected Shadows

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