Thursday, January 23, 2025

Squares fitted in regular polygons

 Squares fitted in regular polygons.


The process I initially follow , is to start with the regular polygon that I want to insert the squares in, draw a loose point in one of the sides and repeat on the other sides (same length). I draw the squares and move the original point until I find the meeting point of the squares. I use GeoGebra to make the drawings.





The triangle, 3-gon

I can't fit 3 squares in a triangle following this process, but still quite interesting geometrically.


The square,4-gon

No gaps left in a square.

The pentagon, 5-gon

Doing a google search I did find out an interesting page with squares fitted in a pentagon : https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squinpen/.

This drawing the same as the one inserting 5 squares in the pentagon, I added the decagons(10-gons),as I find it makes it visually more interesting.




Hexagon,6-gon

In a hexagon the squares meet in the midpoint of the square.


The hexagon and golden ratio using the previous template.




Heptagon,7-gon




Octagon, 8-gon

Square and square root 2.