Successive Truncations of a Polygon
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At each step, the corners are cut off each polygon, by removing a certain fraction of each side. In some cases, quite a close approximation to a circle can be produced.
Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
Concept by: Catherine Wolfram
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