Issue 26972: Proper treatment of float values in intersectConvexConvex #26974
As outlined in https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/26972 the function `intersectConvexConvex()` may not work as expected in the corner case, where two polygons intersect at a corner. A concrete example is given that I added as unit test. The unit test would fail without the proposed bug fix. I recommend porting the fix to all versions.
Now concerning the fix: When digging into the implementation I found, that when the line intersections are computed, openCV currently does not apply floating point comparison syntax, but pretends that line end points are exact. Instead I replaced the formulation using the eps that is already used in another component of the function in line.277: `epx=1e-5`. IMO that is solid enough, definitely better than assuming an exact floating point comparison is possible.
As a follow up I would suggest to use a scalable eps, s.t. also cases with high floating point numbers would be less error prone. However that would need to be done in all relevant sub steps, not just the line intersection code. So for me outside the scope of this fix.
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