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CGAL 4.8 - 2D Intersection of Curves

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2D Intersection of Curves Reference

##

Baruch Zukerman, Ron Wein, and Efi Fogel
This package provides three free functions implemented based on the sweep-line paradigm: given a collection of input curves, compute all intersection points, compute the set of subcurves that are pairwise interior-disjoint induced by them, and check whether there is at least one pair of curves among them that intersect in their interior.

Introduced in: CGAL 2.4
Depends on: 2D Arrangements
BibTeX: cgal:wfz-ic2-16a
License: GPL

This chapter describes three functions implemented using the sweep-line algorithm: given a collection \( {\mathcal C}\) of planar curves, compute all intersection points among them, obtain the set of maximal pairwise interior-disjoint subcurves of the curves in \( {\mathcal C}\), or check whether there is at least one pair of curves in \( {\mathcal C}\) that intersect in their interior.

The first two operations are performed in an output-sensitive manner.

## Classified Reference Pages

## Functions

- `CGAL::compute_intersection_points`
- `CGAL::compute_subcurves`
- `CGAL::do_curves_intersect`

## Functions
template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator >
OutputIterator | CGAL::compute_intersection_points (InputIterator curves_begin, InputIterator curves_end, OutputIterator points, bool report_endpoints=false)
| Given a range of curves, compute all intersection points between two (or more) input curves. More...
template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator , class Traits >
OutputIterator | CGAL::compute_intersection_points (InputIterator curves_begin, InputIterator curves_end, OutputIterator points, bool report_endpoints=false, Traits traits)
| Given a range of curves, compute all intersection points between two (or more) input curves. More...
template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator >
OutputIterator | CGAL::compute_subcurves (InputIterator curves_begin, InputIterator curves_end, OutputIterator subcurves, bool multiple_overlaps=false)
| Given a range of curves, compute all \( x\)-monotone subcurves that are pairwise disjoint in their interior, as induced by the input curves. More...
template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator , class Traits >
OutputIterator | CGAL::compute_subcurves (InputIterator curves_begin, InputIterator curves_end, OutputIterator subcurves, bool multiple_overlaps=false, Traits traits=Default_traits())
| Given a range of curves, compute all \( x\)-monotone subcurves that are pairwise disjoint in their interior, as induced by the input curves. More...
template<class InputIterator >
bool | CGAL::do_curves_intersect (InputIterator curves_begin, InputIterator curves_end)
| Given a range of curves, check whether there is at least one pair of curves that intersect in their interior. More...
template<class InputIterator , class Traits >
bool | CGAL::do_curves_intersect (InputIterator curves_begin, InputIterator curves_end, Traits traits=Default_traits())
| Given a range of curves, check whether there is at least one pair of curves that intersect in their interior. More...

## Function Documentation

template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator >

OutputIterator CGAL::compute_intersection_points | ( | InputIterator | curves_begin,
|  | InputIterator | curves_end,
|  | OutputIterator | points,
|  | bool | report_endpoints = `false`
| ) |  |

Given a range of curves, compute all intersection points between two (or more) input curves.

When the flag `report_endpoints` is `true`, this function reports all the curve endpoints as well. If a curve endpoint is also an intersection point, it is reported once (regardless of the value of the `report_endpoints` flag). The value-type of `InputIterator` is a curve type and the value-type of `OutputIterator` is a point type. The output points are reported in an increasing \(xy\)-lexicographical order.

`#include <CGAL/Sweep_line_2_algorithms.h>`

Examples:
  Sweep_line_2/sweep_line.cpp.

template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator , class Traits >

OutputIterator CGAL::compute_intersection_points | ( | InputIterator | curves_begin,
|  | InputIterator | curves_end,
|  | OutputIterator | points,
|  | bool | report_endpoints = `false`,
|  | Traits | traits
| ) |  |

Given a range of curves, compute all intersection points between two (or more) input curves.

When the flag `report_endpoints` is `true`, this function reports all the curve endpoints as well. If a curve endpoint is also an intersection point, it is reported once (regardless of the value of the `report_endpoints` flag). The `Traits` type must be a model of the `ArrangementTraits_2` concept, such that the value-type of `InputIterator` is `Traits::Curve_2`, and the value-type of `OutputIterator` is `Traits::Point_2`. The output points are reported in an increasing \( xy\)-lexicographical order.

`#include <CGAL/Sweep_line_2_algorithms.h>`

template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator >

OutputIterator CGAL::compute_subcurves | ( | InputIterator | curves_begin,
|  | InputIterator | curves_end,
|  | OutputIterator | subcurves,
|  | bool | multiple_overlaps = `false`
| ) |  |

Given a range of curves, compute all \( x\)-monotone subcurves that are pairwise disjoint in their interior, as induced by the input curves.

If the flag `multiple_overlaps` is `true`, then a subcurve that represents an overlap of \( k\) input curves is reported \( k\) times; otherwise, each subcurve is reported only once. The value-type of `InputIterator` is a curve type, and the value-type of `OutputIterator` is an \(x\)-monotone curve type.

`#include <CGAL/Sweep_line_2_algorithms.h>`

Examples:
  Sweep_line_2/sweep_line.cpp.

template<class InputIterator , class OutputIterator , class Traits >

OutputIterator CGAL::compute_subcurves | ( | InputIterator | curves_begin,
|  | InputIterator | curves_end,
|  | OutputIterator | subcurves,
|  | bool | multiple_overlaps = `false`,
|  | Traits | traits = `Default_traits()`
| ) |  |

Given a range of curves, compute all \( x\)-monotone subcurves that are pairwise disjoint in their interior, as induced by the input curves.

If the flag `multiple_overlaps` is `true`, then a subcurve that represents an overlap of \( k\) input curves is reported \( k\) times; otherwise, each subcurve is reported only once. The `Traits` type must be a model of the `ArrangementTraits_2` concept, such that the value-type of `InputIterator` is `Traits::Curve_2`, and the value-type of `OutputIterator` is `Traits::X_monotone_curve_2`.

`#include <CGAL/Sweep_line_2_algorithms.h>`

template<class InputIterator >

bool CGAL::do_curves_intersect | ( | InputIterator | curves_begin,
|  | InputIterator | curves_end
| ) |  |

Given a range of curves, check whether there is at least one pair of curves that intersect in their interior.

The function returns `true` if such a pair is found, and `false` if all curves are pairwise disjoint in their interior. The value-type of `InputIterator` is a curve type.

`#include <CGAL/Sweep_line_2_algorithms.h>`

Examples:
  Sweep_line_2/sweep_line.cpp.

template<class InputIterator , class Traits >

bool CGAL::do_curves_intersect | ( | InputIterator | curves_begin,
|  | InputIterator | curves_end,
|  | Traits | traits = `Default_traits()`
| ) |  |

Given a range of curves, check whether there is at least one pair of curves that intersect in their interior.

The function returns `true` if such a pair is found, and `false` if all curves are pairwise disjoint in their interior. The `Traits` type must be a model of the `ArrangementTraits_2` concept, such that the value-type of `InputIterator` is `Traits::Curve_2`.

`#include <CGAL/Sweep_line_2_algorithms.h>`