* updated color scaling to preserve hue at low brightness resulting in much better colors
* replace NPBlg with NPB, moved brightness scaling to bus manager
* improved gamma table calculation: fixed mismatch in inverting gamma table calculation: inversion should now be as good as it gets
* code cleanup, fixed gamma being applied in unnecessary places
Improvements to ABL handling:
- removed strip level handling, ist now all done on bus level
- limiter now respects pixel mapping
- proper handling of white channel
- improved current estimation
- current is now always correctly reported to UI
- minimal FPS impact if the ABL is not limiting but slighly higher impact for global ABL limit due to double-scaling
- moved brightness scaling to BusDigital
- created new header file colors.h to be able to access color functions in bus-manager.
- updated colo_fade() with better video scaling to preserve hue's at low brightness
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_fade (negligible speed impact when compared to inline and benefits other functions)
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_blend as it is used a lot throughout the code, did not test speed impact but adding it to color_fade made it almost on-par with an inlined function
Additional changes:
- fixes for properly handling `scaledBri()` (by @blazoncek)
- also use bit-shift instead of division in blending for ESP8266
- improvements for faster "softlight" calculation in blending
- changed some variables to uint8_t to maybe let the compiler optimize better, uint8_t can be faster if read, store and set are all done in uint8_t, which is the case in the ones I changed
- various minor code formatting changes
- Photoshop-style segment/layer blending
- return of strip ABL
- remove global LED buffer in favour of segment-local buffer
- new effect blending modes/transitions
- custom palettes moved out of WS2812FX class
- increased limits (matrix size, LED RAM)
- added "rainbow"-mode colorwheel
- replaced palettes with gamma unmodified ones
- move gamma adjustment to last step before sending to LEDs
- Segment & WS2812FX class reorganisation (mutable members, reordered members, protected members)
- increase WLED_MAX_BUSSES for C3 (fixes#4215)
- fix for #4228
- fix for very long running effect (strip.now, strip.timebase)
- C++ API change to allow `seg.setColor().setOpacity()`
- removing WS2812FX::setMode()
- removing WS2812FX::setColor()
- removing floating point in transition
- color handling modification in set.cpp
- replaced uint8_t with unsigned in function parameters
- inlined WS2812FX::isUpdating()
- (MAY BE BREAKING) alexa & smartnest update
- transitions always enabled (use delay 0 to disable)
- optimisation in on/off fade
- fix for palette/color blend when blending style is not fade
- various tweaks and optimisations
Remove sync receive
Disallow 2D effects on non-2D segments
Optimisations
Sync clarification
AR palettes
Return of 2 audio simulations
Bugfix in sync #3344
- remove excessive segments
- ignore inactive segments if not syncing bounds
- send UDP/WS on segment change
- pop_back() when removing last segment
Add pairing support for ESP-NOW sync
Reduce string RAM footprint
UDP parse optimisation
Make WizMote work with sync.
ESP-NOW wireless sync POC.
- caveat: devices have to be on the same channel
- clashes with WizMote handling ATM
