Detect square in a List of Points

Question

I want to test if there is a square in a list of Point object or not.

This is my Point class :

class Point {
    private int x;
    private int y;

    public Point(int x, int y) {
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
    }

    public int getX() {
        return x;
    }

    public void setX(int x) {
        this.x = x;
    }

    public int getY() {
        return y;
    }

    public void setY(int y) {
        this.y = y;
    }

    public int distanceSquare(Point q) {
        return (x - q.getX()) * (x - q.getX()) +
                (y - q.getY()) * (y - q.getY());
    }
}

I can test if four Point is a Square or not :

static boolean isSquare(Point p1, Point p2, Point p3, Point p4) {
        int d2 = p1.distanceSquare(p2);  // from p1 to p2
        int d3 = p1.distanceSquare(p3);  // from p1 to p3
        int d4 = p1.distanceSquare(p4);  // from p1 to p4

        if (d2 == d3 && 2 * d2 == d4) {
            int d = p2.distanceSquare(p4);
            return (d == p3.distanceSquare(p4) && d == d2);
        }

        if (d3 == d4 && 2 * d3 == d2) {
            int d = p2.distanceSquare(p3);
            return (d == p2.distanceSquare(p4) && d == d3);
        }
        if (d2 == d4 && 2 * d2 == d3) {
            int d = p2.distanceSquare(p3);
            return (d == p3.distanceSquare(p4) && d == d2);
        }

        return false;
    }

But I didn't found the best way to search the square in a list of Point.

Can you help me !!!

Answer 1

Take all pairs of points; for each pair calculate its angle, its length and the middle point. This will take O(n^2) time.
For each set of pairs having the same middle point and the same length sort these pairs by angle, this will take in total O(n^2*log(n)) time. This will help you to find two orthogonal diagonals of the same length having the same middle point (that is the square!).
Total algo time complexity is O(n^2*log(n)).