Why not just place a mirror at 45 degrees in the corner? That way you don't need the lidar but you can just look around the corner? It would also work better with the lidar.
I don't really understand, what the Graphs on page 9 and 13 represent, but they look somewhat like a world map with the continents.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's actually a geographic connection. A lot of ingrediants are probably more prevalent in certain world regions.
For anyone who regularly has to look at/analyze binary files, i highly recommend ImHex [1].
Its a hex editor built with imgui and has a lot of built in tools. Imo the best feature is the data structure editor. You can write a data type definition similar to C and it overlays it on the hexdump and parses it in a structured way while you type.
Is it possible to implement something similar but with a protocol that supports compression?
Can we have a zip bomb but with a compressed http response that gets decompressed on the client? There are many protocols that support compression in some way.
300ms seems like a lot. Even if this includes the whole http request+response it still seems unbelievably long.