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 Problem 143 - Orchard Trees, Explanations 

Algorithm

Be sure to know how to check if a point is inside of a polygon.

The all points O(n**2) algorithm will not be quick enough, you must program a linear algorithm.

One way to do it is to have an horizontal scanline sweep the triangle from bottom to top and to get the intersections with the triangle lines.

Trick

Don't assume the triangle to be one way or another. Especially don't assume that it is three different points.

Beware to horizontal lines.

You can debug a buggy scanline with a working all-points algorithm.

Here are some geometry ressources.

Triangle (0,1)(0,1)(0,1) returns 0 trees.

If you are in trouble with the multi-entry input, read my how to read input.

Additional Input

143.in

Additional Output

143.out

Problem

An Orchardist has planted an orchard in a rectangle with trees uniformly spaced in both directions. Thus the trees form a rectangular grid and we can consider the trees to have integer coordinates. The origin of the coordinate system is at the bottom left of the following diagram:

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Consider that we now overlay a series of triangles on to this grid. The vertices of the triangle can have any real coordinates in the range 0.0 to 100.0, thus trees can have coordinates in the range 1 to 99. Two possible triangles are shown.

Write a program that will determine how many trees are contained within a given triangle. For the purposes of this problem, you may assume that the trees are of point size, and that any tree (point) lying exactly on the border of a triangle is considered to be in the triangle.

Input and Output

Input will consist of a series of lines. Each line will contain 6 real numbers in the range 0.00 to 100.00 representing the coordinates of a triangle. The entire file will be terminated by a line containing 6 zeroes (0 0 0 0 0 0).

Output will consist of one line for each triangle, containing the number of trees for that triangle right justified in a field of width 4.

Sample input

1.5 1.5  1.5 6.8  6.8 1.5
10.7 6.9  8.5 1.5  14.5 1.5
0 0 0 0 0 0

Sample output

  15
  17
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