Check if four segments form a rectangle

We are given four segments as a pair of coordinates of their end points. We need to tell whether those four line segments make a rectangle or not.
Examples:

Input : segments[] =  [(4, 2), (7, 5),
                       (2, 4), (4, 2),
                       (2, 4), (5, 7),
                       (5, 7), (7, 5)]
Output : Yes
Given these segment make a rectangle of length 3X2.

Input : segment[] = [(7, 0), (10, 0),
                     (7, 0), (7, 3),
                     (7, 3), (10, 2),
                     (10, 2), (10, 0)]
Output : Not
These segments do not make a rectangle.

Above examples are shown in below diagram.

This problem is mainly an extension of How to check if given four points form a square

We can solve this problem by using properties of a rectangle. First, we check total unique end points of segments, if count of these points is not equal to 4 then the line segment can’t make a rectangle. Then we check distances between all pair of points, there should be at most 3 different distances, one for diagonal and two for sides and at the end we will check the relation among these three distances, for line segments to make a rectangle these distance should satisfy Pythagorean relation because sides and diagonal of rectangle makes a right angle triangle. If they satisfy mentioned conditions then we will flag polygon made by line segment as rectangle otherwise not.

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// C++ program to check whether it is possible 
// to make a rectangle from 4 segments 
#include <bits/stdc++.h> 
using namespace std; 
#define N 4 
  
// structure to represent a segment 
struct Segment 
{ 
    int ax, ay; 
    int bx, by; 
}; 
  
// Utility method to return square of distance 
// between two points 
int getDis(pair<int, int> a, pair<int, int> b) 
{ 
    return (a.first - b.first)*(a.first - b.first) + 
        (a.second - b.second)*(a.second - b.second); 
} 
  
// method returns true if line Segments make 
// a rectangle 
bool isPossibleRectangle(Segment segments[]) 
{ 
    set< pair<int, int> > st; 
  
    // putiing all end points in a set to 
    // count total unique points 
    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) 
    { 
        st.insert(make_pair(segments[i].ax, segments[i].ay)); 
        st.insert(make_pair(segments[i].bx, segments[i].by)); 
    } 
  
    // If total unique points are not 4, then 
    // they can't make a rectangle 
    if (st.size() != 4) 
        return false; 
  
    // dist will store unique 'square of distances' 
    set<int> dist; 
  
    // calculating distance between all pair of 
    // end points of line segments 
    for (auto it1=st.begin(); it1!=st.end(); it1++) 
        for (auto it2=st.begin(); it2!=st.end(); it2++) 
            if (*it1 != *it2) 
                dist.insert(getDis(*it1, *it2)); 
  
    // if total unique distance are more than 3, 
    // then line segment can't make a rectangle 
    if (dist.size() > 3) 
        return false; 
  
    // copying distance into array. Note that set maintains 
    // sorted order. 
    int distance[3]; 
    int i = 0; 
    for (auto it = dist.begin(); it != dist.end(); it++) 
        distance[i++] = *it; 
  
    // If line seqments form a square 
    if (dist.size() == 2) 
    return (2*distance[0] == distance[1]); 
  
    // distance of sides should satisfy pythagorean 
    // theorem 
    return (distance[0] + distance[1] == distance[2]); 
} 
  
// Driver code to test above methods 
int main() 
{ 
    Segment segments[] = 
    { 
        {4, 2, 7, 5}, 
        {2, 4, 4, 2}, 
        {2, 4, 5, 7}, 
        {5, 7, 7, 5} 
    }; 
  
    (isPossibleRectangle(segments))?cout << "Yes\n":cout << "No\n"; 
} 

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Output:




Yes



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