Find if two rectangles overlap

Given two rectangles, find if the given two rectangles overlap or not.

Note that a rectangle can be represented by two coordinates, top left and bottom right. So mainly we are given following four coordinates.
l1: Top Left coordinate of first rectangle.
r1: Bottom Right coordinate of first rectangle.
l2: Top Left coordinate of second rectangle.
r2: Bottom Right coordinate of second rectangle.

We need to write a function bool doOverlap(l1, r1, l2, r2) that returns true if the two given rectangles overlap.

Recommended: Please solve it on “PRACTICE ” first, before moving on to the solution.

Note : It may be assumed that the rectangles are parallel to the coordinate axis.

One solution is to one by one pick all points of one rectangle and see if the point lies inside the other rectangle or not. This can be done using the algorithm discussed here.
Following is a simpler approach. Two rectangles do not overlap if one of the following conditions is true.
1) One rectangle is above top edge of other rectangle.
2) One rectangle is on left side of left edge of other rectangle.

We need to check above cases to find out if given rectangles overlap or not. Following is the implementation of the above approach.

C++

#include<bits/stdc++.h> 
  
struct Point 
{ 
    int x, y; 
}; 
  
// Returns true if two rectangles (l1, r1) and (l2, r2) overlap 
bool doOverlap(Point l1, Point r1, Point l2, Point r2) 
{ 
    // If one rectangle is on left side of other 
    if (l1.x >= r2.x || l2.x >= r1.x) 
        return false; 
  
    // If one rectangle is above other 
    if (l1.y <= r2.y || l2.y <= r1.y) 
        return false; 
  
    return true; 
} 
  
/* Driver program to test above function */
int main() 
{ 
    Point l1 = {0, 10}, r1 = {10, 0}; 
    Point l2 = {5, 5}, r2 = {15, 0}; 
    if (doOverlap(l1, r1, l2, r2)) 
        printf("Rectangles Overlap"); 
    else
        printf("Rectangles Don't Overlap"); 
    return 0; 
}

Java

// Java program to check if rectangles overlap    
class GFG { 
  
   static class Point { 
  
        int x, y; 
    } 
  
// Returns true if two rectangles (l1, r1) and (l2, r2) overlap  
 static  boolean doOverlap(Point l1, Point r1, Point l2, Point r2) { 
        // If one rectangle is on left side of other  
        if (l1.x >= r2.x || l2.x >= r1.x) { 
            return false; 
        } 
  
        // If one rectangle is above other  
        if (l1.y <= r2.y || l2.y <= r1.y) { 
            return false; 
        } 
  
        return true; 
    } 
  
    /* Driver program to test above function */
    public static void main(String[] args) { 
        Point l1 = new Point(),r1 = new Point(), 
                l2 = new Point(),r2 = new Point(); 
        l1.x=0;l1.y=10; r1.x=10;r1.y=0; 
         l2.x=5;l2.y=5; r2.x=15;r2.y=0; 
  
        if (doOverlap(l1, r1, l2, r2)) { 
            System.out.println("Rectangles Overlap"); 
        } else { 
            System.out.println("Rectangles Don't Overlap"); 
        } 
    } 
} 
//this code contributed by PrinciRaj1992 

Python3

# Python program to check if rectangles overlap 
class Point: 
    def __init__(self, x, y): 
        self.x = x 
        self.y = y 
  
# Returns true if two rectangles(l1, r1)  
# and (l2, r2) overlap 
def doOverlap(l1, r1, l2, r2): 
      
    # If one rectangle is on left side of other 
    if(l1.x >= r2.x or l2.x >= r1.x): 
        return False
  
    # If one rectangle is above other 
    if(l1.y <= r2.y or l2.y <= r1.y): 
        return False
  
    return True
  
# Driver Code 
if __name__ == "__main__": 
    l1 = Point(0, 10) 
    r1 = Point(10, 0) 
    l2 = Point(5, 5) 
    r2 = Point(15, 0) 
  
    if(doOverlap(l1, r1, l2, r2)): 
        print("Rectangles Overlap") 
    else: 
        print("Rectangles Don't Overlap") 
  
# This code is contributed by Vivek Kumar Singh 

C#

// C# program to check if rectangles overlap  
using System; 
      
class GFG  
{ 
    class Point  
    { 
        public int x, y; 
    } 
  
    // Returns true if two rectangles (l1, r1)  
    // and (l2, r2) overlap  
    static bool doOverlap(Point l1, Point r1, 
                          Point l2, Point r2)  
    { 
        // If one rectangle is on left side of other  
        if (l1.x >= r2.x || l2.x >= r1.x) 
        { 
            return false; 
        } 
  
        // If one rectangle is above other  
        if (l1.y <= r2.y || l2.y <= r1.y)  
        { 
            return false; 
        } 
        return true; 
    } 
  
    // Driver Code 
    public static void Main()  
    { 
        Point l1 = new Point(), r1 = new Point(), 
                l2 = new Point(), r2 = new Point(); 
        l1.x = 0;l1.y = 10; r1.x = 10;r1.y = 0; 
        l2. = 5;l2.y = 5; r2.x = 15;r2.y = 0; 
        if (doOverlap(l1, r1, l2, r2)) 
        { 
            Console.WriteLine("Rectangles Overlap"); 
        } else
        { 
            Console.WriteLine("Rectangles Don't Overlap"); 
        } 
    } 
} 
  
// This code is contributed by  
// Rajput-Ji 

Output:

Rectangles Overlap

Time Complexity of above code is O(1) as the code doesn’t have any loop or recursion.

This article is compiled by Aman Gupta. Please write comments if you find anything incorrect, or you want to share more information about the topic discussed above

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My Personal Notes

Recommended: Please solve it on “PRACTICE ” first, before moving on to the solution.

C++

Java

Python3

C#

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