Rectangle.intersect can give negative rectangles - worth a comment

[davidedc]

This is correct, but I think it deserves a comment, because, say, it matters if one wants to implement a proper isEmpty routine (which I didn't, and costed me several hours of debugging :-)

new Rectangle(10,10,20,20).intersect(new Rectangle(15,25,19,25))

gives a rectangle with the corner above the origin:

  origin: Point
    x: 15
    y: 25
  corner: Point
    x: 19
    y: 20

(the proper "is empty" test indeed is already in morphic.js !dirty.extent().gt(new Point(0, 0)) , just not in a dedicated routine)

Also note how a negative rectangle can be expanded to be positive (which again is correct but worth a comment, as the intuition might otherwise suggest that many operations including expansion should be "void" on an empty rectangle):

new Rectangle(10,10,20,20).intersect(new Rectangle(15,25,19,25)).expandBy(3).area() -> 10

[davidedc]

Also - similar topic: 2 empty rectangles can be merged into a bigger non-empty rectangle

new Rectangle(0,0,0,0).merge(new Rectangle(10,10,10,10))

gives the rectangle at origin 0,0 and corner at 10,10