How many integer points within the three points forming a triangle?

Question

Actually this is a classic problem as SO user Victor put it (in another SO question regarding which tasks to ask during an interview).

I couldn\'t do it in an hour

Answer 1

I found a quite useful link which clearly explains the solution to this problem. I am weak in coordinate geometry so I used this solution and coded it in Java which works (at least for the test cases I tried..)

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55169.html

public int points(int[][] vertices){
      int interiorPoints = 0;
      double triangleArea = 0;
      int x1 = vertices[0][0], x2 = vertices[1][0], x3 = vertices[2][0];
      int y1 = vertices[0][1], y2 = vertices[1][1], y3 = vertices[2][1];

      triangleArea = Math.abs(((x1-x2)*(y1+y2))                             
                + ((x2-x3)*(y2+y3))
                + ((x3-x1)*(y3+y1)));

      triangleArea /=2;
      triangleArea++;

      interiorPoints = Math.abs(gcd(x1-x2,y1-y2))
                + Math.abs(gcd(x2-x3, y2-y3))
                + Math.abs(gcd(x3-x1, y3-y1));

      interiorPoints /=2;

      return  (int)(triangleArea - interiorPoints);
 }