Hello. I'm trying to understand how the pipeline works before I go further. I reached the Tessellation part in the pipeline explanation in a book and are some things that I dont uderstand.
Here I have an example of a simple Tessellation from Rastertek website.

[source]


cbuffer TessellationBuffer
{
float tessellationAmount;
float3 padding;
};

struct HullInputType
{
float3 position : POSITION;
float4 color : COLOR;
};
struct ConstantOutputType
{
float edges[3] : SV_TessFactor;
float inside : SV_InsideTessFactor;
};
struct HullOutputType
{
float3 position : POSITION;
float4 color : COLOR;
};






////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Hull Shader
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[domain("tri")]
[partitioning("integer")]
[outputtopology("triangle_cw")]
[outputcontrolpoints(3)]
[patchconstantfunc("ColorPatchConstantFunction")]
HullOutputType ColorHullShader(InputPatch<HullInputType, 3> patch, uint pointId : SV_OutputControlPointID, uint patchId : SV_PrimitiveID)
{
HullOutputType output;

// Set the position for this control point as the output position.
output.position = patch[pointId].position;
// Set the input color as the output color.
output.color = patch[pointId].color;
return output;
}






////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Patch Constant Function
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
ConstantOutputType ColorPatchConstantFunction(InputPatch<HullInputType, 3> inputPatch, uint patchId : SV_PrimitiveID)
{
ConstantOutputType output;

// Set the tessellation factors for the three edges of the triangle.
output.edges[0] = 6;
output.edges[1] = 6;
output.edges[2] = 6;
// Set the tessellation factor for tessellating inside the triangle.
output.inside = 6;
return output;
}
[/source]
I don't know If I understand correctly. The HULL SHADER actually takes vertices and transforms them in control point for patches that are actually still vertices. I mean in this example The hull shader takes 3 vertices and "transforms" them in a control patch that is actually a triangle that will be modified. So If I want specific control points that are invisible to the mesh I must integrate them in the Vertex buffer ?

So I actually I don't understand is what the control points and patches are. An triangle is submitted to the HS and the control points are the vertices and the patch is the triangle itself ? How control patches and points are separated from the triangle ?