algorithm - How to check if line segment intersects a rectangle?

Question

If you have 2 points, (x1, y1) and (x2, y2), which represent two opposite corners of a rectangle, and 2 other points, (x3,y3) and (x4,y4), which represent 2 endpoints of a line segment, how can you check if the line segment intersects the rectangle?

(The line segment is just the segment contained between the given endpoints. It is not an infinite length line defined by those two points.)

Answer 1

One very simple option would be to use a standard algorithm for checking whether two line segments intersect to check whether the line segments intersects any of the four line segments that make up the corners of the box. It's computationally very efficient to check if two line segments intersect, so I would expect that this could run very quickly.

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