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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.smith.edu!orourke
- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Re: Polygon-polygon intersection
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.015648.19923@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- References: <7418@tivoli.UUCP> <1993Jan4.195436.2889@cis.uab.edu> <1iadoeINN2hj@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:56:48 GMT
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- In article <1iadoeINN2hj@life.ai.mit.edu> sundar@ai.mit.edu writes:
- >|> In article <7418@tivoli.UUCP> twb@tivoli.com (Tom Bereiter) writes:
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- >|> >I'm looking for an efficient test for whether two 2D polygons intersect.
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- >This seems to come up repeatedly, and it DOES have a simple answer,
- >Polygon intersection can be reduced to point in polygon in linear time.
- >Basically convolve A & B, [etc.]
-
- This does come up repeatedly. Last time it did I pointed out
- that the Minkowski sum (convolution) can be computed in linear time
- on for two *convex* polygons. For two arbitrary simple polygons of
- n vertices each, there are examples that require n^4 time!
-