Calling functions in DLLs from JavaScript

During the past few weeks, I worked a lot with Google’s V8, the JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome. The engine can be easily embedded into applications, providing the ability to write some functionality of the application in JavaScript instead of C++. However, from within JavaScript code, there is no way out of the sandbox

Extract depth maps from Google Street View

Besides high-resolution images, Google Street View also provides a depth map for each panorama, containing the distance from the camera to the nearest surface at each pixel. As far as I know, there is no official documentation of the format, but there are some open source projects which contain code showing how to interpret the