Min/Max of two vectors?

Question

This seems like a simple question, but i'm having trouble searching the internet for it.

In XNA, during a collision detecting method, I would determin the minimum of some vectors.

// Get the minimum top point
Vector2 minTopPoint1 = Vector2.Min(topLeft1, topRight1);
// Get the minimum bottom point
Vector2 minBottomPoint1 = Vector2.Min(bottomLeft1, bottomRight1);
// Get the minimum of both the top and bottom points.
Vector2 minPoint1 = Vector2.Min(minTopPoint1, minBottomPoint1);

I switched over to making a C++ engine, and am trying to replicate the collision formula (Honestly, it's confusing enough, I just need to replicate it from XNA) I made my own Vector2, and now I need to make this Min function.

So, what is the minimum or maximum of two vectors? Is it just the magnitude of the two vectors measured against eatchother? Is it the x and y values min/maxed somehow?

Answer 1

The code behind all the methods in Xna are available with reflection (I use red gate's reflector application but there are probably free ones). here's the code behind Vector2.Min

public static Vector2 Min(Vector2 value1, Vector2 value2)
{
    Vector2 vector;
    vector.X = (value1.X < value2.X) ? value1.X : value2.X;
    vector.Y = (value1.Y < value2.Y) ? value1.Y : value2.Y;
    return vector;
}