Update included Pixelbuster to 0.2.0

2022-07-19

PIXELBUSTER update example

Pixelbuster release

Pixel Math 2 has been reworked into Pixelbuster using a newer version of the lib held in a separate repository. Tons of new language features.

GIMP 2.99.6 hotfix

Will no longer work on previous GIMP versions

Significant Pixel Math 2 improvements

• Significantly boosted performance again, particularly in code that uses vars.
• Added a ton of features again, this time many many fun operators & a 'rand' constant

Much more PM2 functionality & Improvements

XYZA format
Decent speedup & half memory usage (future plans were changed)
Moar ops

Mild speedup in Filmic Chroma, major speedup in Pixel Math 2

Marginal Filmic Chroma speedup with new techniques

yeah I didn't realize you could just cast an array of bytes into an
array of multi-byte primitives my bad. Code smaller and like 30% faster.

Pixel Math 2

it's fast

Many fixes & improvements. Pixel Math now portable.

2020-12-29

Updated screenshots

Huge Filmic Chroma speedup using FFI

Filmic Chroma now uses native ctypes FFI for a >5x speedup on Windows which previously was pure python, and a >20% speedup on Linux which previously used the distro's numpy. Theoretically possible to apply to MacOS as well but am not sure how to cross-compile or if you even can.

This also means NumPy is axed, and Pixel Math will revert to pure python in a future release.

Certified for GIMP 2.99.2 on Linux and Windows.

Pixel Math still requires Numpy. I consider that plugin more of an experiment than something actually worthwhile, so I'm not worried.