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Hough transform in javascript

Because, why not?

The Hough transform is used to find lines or ellipses in an image. In the course Advanced Digital Image Processing @TuDelft this technique was described. Later while fiddling around with the plug and play hough transform in Matlab I really wanted to implement one myself; nothing is more unsatisfying than using things which already work.

This implementation finds lines and estimates start and endpoints of those lines. As I quite dislike Matlab I decided to write it in Javascript, all images are rendered on HTML 5 canvas. Do not expect any performance as this is a hobby project only :). Oddly enough it is way faster in Internet explorer than Firefox. Click

Screenshot of the Hough transform implementation in javascript
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