c++ - Get the points of intersection from 2 rectangles

Question

Let say that we have two rectangles, defined with their bottom-left and top-right corners. For example: rect1 (x1, y1)(x2, y2) and rect2 (x3, y3)(x4, y4). I'm trying to find the coordinates(bottom-left and top-right) of the intersected rectangle.

Any ideas, algorithm, pseudo code, would be greatly appreciated.

p.s. I found similar questions but they check only if 2 rectangle intersect.

Answer 1

If the input rectangles are normalized, i.e. you already know that x1 < x2, y1 < y2 (and the same for the second rectangle), then all you need to do is calculate

int x5 = max(x1, x3);
int y5 = max(y1, y3);
int x6 = min(x2, x4);
int y6 = min(y2, y4);

and it will give you your intersection as rectangle (x5, y5)-(x6, y6). If the original rectangles do not intersect, the result will be a "degenerate" rectangle (with x5 >= x6 and/or y5 >= y6), which you can easily check for.

P.S. As usual, small details will depend on whether you have to consider touching rectangles as intersecting.