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They are! But the octagons you draw that way aren’t regular (basically because sqrt(2) is irrational)

• hinkley 4y ago
  You can get pretty close with a pencil and a ruler though, if you have the right diameter of mechanical pencil. If you place the ruler dead on the corners of the squares and draw the line offset that tiny little bit, the error is barely perceptible without magnification.
  • yarg 4y ago
    Throw a compass into the mix and you'll get close enough. But you like, fall off the grid man.
    • hinkley 4y ago
      Are you trying to square a circle? We don't tolerate that witchcraft around these parts. Now git.
      • yarg 4y ago
        No - you can't square the circle, but you can get the square-root of 2. Choose a corner and truncate, measure the edge length using a compass, and use that to draw the rest of the owl. You can do it, but you end up with horizontal and vertical edges that are misaligned with the grid. And I saw the opportunity to make a bad joke.