Offload Processing to Web Workers

[hydrosquall]

Really enjoyed the Medium writeup- I have a gallery of food-related pictures that I've been thinking of turning into a project someday, so this might come in handy!

Wanted to ask if you'd looked into using WebWorkers to do some of the computation on background threads instead of the main Javascript thread? The catch with Web Workers is they can't touch the DOM directly, but you can pass mathematical / network request related tasks to them and they can give the result back to your main application thread. @kosamari gave an example in her OpenVis talk this year.