"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
- Douglas Adams
So I explore into Direct3D a little again. This time it's DX9 and the first demo utilizing it is here. It's a demo of volumetric lighting through a 2.0 vertex shader.