Given two circles:
x1
, y1
) with radius1
x2
, y2
) with radius2
How do you calculate the area of their intersection? All standard math functions (sin
, cos
, etc.) are available, of course.
Okay, using the Wolfram link and Misnomer's cue to look at equation 14, I have derived the following Java solution using the variables I listed and the distance between the centers (which can trivially be derived from them):
double r = radius1;
double R = radius2;
double d = distance;
if(R < r){
// swap
r = radius2;
R = radius1;
}
double part1 = r*r*Math.acos((d*d + r*r - R*R)/(2*d*r));
double part2 = R*R*Math.acos((d*d + R*R - r*r)/(2*d*R));
double part3 = 0.5*Math.sqrt((-d+r+R)*(d+r-R)*(d-r+R)*(d+r+R));
double intersectionArea = part1 + part2 - part3;