Calculating the angle between two lines without having to calculate the slope? (Java)

Question

I have two Lines: L1 and L2. I want to calculate the angle between the two lines. L1 has points: {(x1, y1), (x2, y2)} and L2 has points: {(x3, y3), (x4, y

Answer 1

dx1 = x2-x1;
dy1 = y2-y1;
dx2 = x4-x3;
dy2 = y4-y3;

d = dx1*dx2 + dy1*dy2;   // dot product of the 2 vectors
l2 = (dx1*dx1+dy1*dy1)*(dx2*dx2+dy2*dy2) // product of the squared lengths

angle = acos(d/sqrt(l2));

The dot product of 2 vectors is equal to the cosine of the angle time the length of both vectors. This computes the dot product, divides by the length of the vectors and uses the inverse cosine function to recover the angle.