code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/563198/how-do-you-detect-where-two-line-segments-intersect
// Returns 1 if the lines intersect, otherwise 0. In addition, if the lines
// intersect the intersection point may be stored in the floats i_x and i_y.
char get_line_intersection(float p0_x, float p0_y, float p1_x, float p1_y,
float p2_x, float p2_y, float p3_x, float p3_y, float *i_x, float *i_y)
{
float s1_x, s1_y, s2_x, s2_y;
s1_x = p1_x - p0_x; s1_y = p1_y - p0_y;
s2_x = p3_x - p2_x; s2_y = p3_y - p2_y;
float s, t;
s = (-s1_y * (p0_x - p2_x) + s1_x * (p0_y - p2_y)) / (-s2_x * s1_y + s1_x * s2_y);
t = ( s2_x * (p0_y - p2_y) - s2_y * (p0_x - p2_x)) / (-s2_x * s1_y + s1_x * s2_y);
if (s >= 0 && s <= 1 && t >= 0 && t <= 1)
{
// Collision detected
if (i_x != NULL)
*i_x = p0_x + (t * s1_x);
if (i_y != NULL)
*i_y = p0_y + (t * s1_y);
return 1;
}
return 0; // No collision
}