BoxUnion

SRM 237 · 2005-04-06 · by legakis

SRM 237 · 2005-04-06 · by legakis · Geometry, Simple Math

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Class Name: BoxUnion

Return Type: int

Method Name: area

Arg Types: (vector<string>)

Problem Statement

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Given a list of two-dimensional rectangles, compute the area of their union. For example, the union of the three rectangles shown in the figure below:

cover an area of 35 units.

The list of rectangles will be given as a String[], where each element describes one rectangle. Each String will be formatted as 4 space-separated integers with no leading zeros, giving the coordinates of the left, bottom, right, and top of the rectangle (in that order). The three rectangles shown above would be given as:

    { "1 3 5 6",
      "3 1 7 5",
      "4 4 9 7" }

Constraints

rectangles will contain between 1 and 3 elements, inclusive.
Each element of rectangles will be formatted as described in the problem statement.
For each rectangle, the left coordinate will be less than the right coordinate and the bottom coordinate will be less than the top coordinate.
All coordinates will be between 0 and 20000, inclusive.

Examples

{ "200 300 203 304" }
Returns: 12

A single rectangle with area 12.

{ "0 0 10 10",
  "20 20 30 30" }
Returns: 200

Two disjoint rectangles, each of area 100.

{ "0 500 20000 501",
  "500 0 501 20000" }
Returns: 39999

These two rectangles intersect at a single point.

{ "4 6 18 24",
  "7 2 12 19",
  "0 0 100 100" }
Returns: 10000

The third rectangle completely overlaps the first two.

{ "1 3 5 6",
  "3 1 7 5",
  "4 4 9 7" }
Returns: 35

This is the example from the problem statement.

Submissions are judged against all 17 archived test cases, of which 5 are shown here. Case numbers match the judge’s.

Coding Area

Language: C++17 · define a public class BoxUnion with a public method int area(vector<string> rectangles) · 17 test cases · 2 s / 256 MB per case