Basically the formulation of the problem I'd like to solve is very simple. Given 2 simple polygons (without self-intersections) report all intersecting edge pairs in O(n+k) time, where n - is a total number of edges, k - number of intersections between two polygons.It is very important to stay within mentioned time hardness. What does surprise me, that I could hardly find information on this subject. Polygon intersections seems to be so natural and important problem. Anyway at the moment I don't have a clue if it is even possible to do it in O(n+k).Can please someone help with lower bounds for this problem?Some additional points on my question:Polygon clipping with set operations and intersection reporting (about which my question was) seems to be slightly different problems - Having found intersecting edges you would have to constract a polygon which is a result of clipping/set operation.An approach based on segment intersection algorithm won't work for me. As it is proved that worst case takes O(nlogn+k).I'm not insisting that an algorithm with such hardness exist - it may not. But in this case I would really appreciate if someone could provide a lower bound proof for my problem - tons of papers provide some very interesting algorithm (usually with O(nlogn+k) complexity) but for some reason don't mention the lower bound.
How to get all intersections between two simple polygons in O(n+k)
computational geometry;constraints