Closed Curve Intersection Network

I was looking at a post earlier today, which got me thinking about the logic of how to collect intersected curves into discrete, closed cells. This got me looking at this post which led me to the excellent codequotidian blog by Trevor Patt and this post, which uses half-edge mesh data structures to sort curve networks. I've been lucky to closely observe Daniel Piker and Will Pearson as they work their magic with Plankton, so I thought I'd take a look at sets of intersecting curves alone to see if a similar approach could organize them effectively. What I've done is a pretty rough workthrough of examining planar curves, blasting them apart based on intersections, and creating sets of "half-curves"...much like half-edges, but these allow for curves of any type to be used for edges in composing faces. I've only done planar curves because calculating angles is the means by which they are sequenced, but I think it'd be possible to also do this for curves on a surface or mesh, with local planes for calculating angles determined according the surface or mesh normals at each vertex.

No doubt the code's pretty ugly, and there'll be bugs.  It definitely likes curves that intersect...I haven't resolved how curves that float alone are treated, or if closed curves lie inside of other closed curves...But in any event, here's the code, have a play if you like...and enjoy!

131111_curve_network.gh