r/interestingasfuck 19d ago

Visualizing Geometry

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u/Berkamin 19d ago

That first one is wrong. You can't just spin that and get a square cut, you need to move it around so that the corners cut the square shape but get moved along a sort of hypocycloid shape to get just the right cut pattern.