Merge pull request #33 from kuznetsovin/bounding-box-for-points

Add function for create rect from points

geom.go

@@ -182,6 +182,25 @@ func NewRect(p Point, lengths []float64) (r *Rect, err error) {
 	return
 }
 
+// NewRectFromPoints constructs and returns a pointer to a Rect given a corner points.
+func NewRectFromPoints(minPoint, maxPoint Point) (r *Rect, err error) {
+	if len(minPoint) != len(maxPoint) {
+		err = &DimError{len(minPoint), len(maxPoint)}
+		return
+	}
+
+	//checking that  min and max points is swapping
+	for i, p := range minPoint {
+		if minPoint[i] > maxPoint[i] {
+			minPoint[i] = maxPoint[i]
+			maxPoint[i] = p
+		}
+	}
+
+	r = &Rect{p: minPoint, q: maxPoint}
+	return
+}
+
 // Size computes the measure of a rectangle (the product of its side lengths).
 func (r *Rect) Size() float64 {
 	size := 1.0

geom_test.go

@@ -37,6 +37,40 @@ func TestNewRect(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestNewRectFromPoints(t *testing.T) {
+	p := Point{1.0, -2.5, 3.0}
+	q := Point{3.5, 5.5, 4.5}
+
+	rect, err := NewRectFromPoints(p, q)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Error on NewRect(%v, %v): %v", p, q, err)
+	}
+	if d := p.dist(rect.p); d > EPS {
+		t.Errorf("Expected p == rect.p")
+	}
+	if d := q.dist(rect.q); d > EPS {
+		t.Errorf("Expected q == rect.q")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewRectFromPointsWithSwapPoints(t *testing.T) {
+	p := Point{1.0, -2.5, 3.0}
+	q := Point{3.5, 5.5, 4.5}
+
+	rect, err := NewRectFromPoints(q, p)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Error on NewRect(%v, %v): %v", p, q, err)
+	}
+
+	// we must swap p and q because in function it was swapped
+	if d := p.dist(rect.q); d > EPS {
+		t.Errorf("Expected p == rect.p")
+	}
+	if d := q.dist(rect.p); d > EPS {
+		t.Errorf("Expected q == rect.q")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestNewRectDimMismatch(t *testing.T) {
 	p := Point{-7.0, 10.0}
 	lengths := []float64{2.5, 8.0, 1.5}