Algorithms for Reporting and Counting Geometric Intersections

  • Authors:
  • J. L. Bentley;T. A. Ottmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon University;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

An interesting class of "geometric intersection problems" calls for dealing with the pairwise intersections among a set of N objects in the plane, These problems arise in many applications such as printed circuit design, architectural data bases, and computer graphics. Shamos and Hoey have described a number of algorithms for detecting whether any two objects in a planar set intersect. In this paper we extend their work by giving algorithms that count the number of such intersections and algorithms that report all such intersections.