It does look quite similar to how pixel rendering was configured in OpenGL 1.x or Direct3D up to D3D7 (you basically had a set of hardwired pixel operations whi

It does look quite similar to how pixel rendering was configured in OpenGL 1.x or Direct3D up to D3D7 (you basically had a set of hardwired pixel operations which you could stack and combine via API calls). Funny enough, the new work graph stuff in D3D12 is also configured in a similar way (by essentially building an AST-like tree of operations via API calls). We really came around full circle ;)