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That seems to be the syntax used in most other defines.
The colon is used to deperate 'operation' from varible, eg distort:viewport.
It probably should be more like distort:shepards-power, but like kernels it is used for sparse-color as well.
I'll change it to "shepards:power" unless someone can come up with a better name.