{"id":1079,"date":"2008-05-01T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T05:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2014-11-18T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:29:48","slug":"equal-areas-of-a-circle-gives-nice-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/equal-areas-of-a-circle-gives-nice-art-1079","title":{"rendered":"Equal areas of a circle gives nice art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTK Insights has an interesting post <b>Dividing circular area into equal parts<\/b> using a pair of compasses and a ruler, complete with proof.  [That post is no longer available.]<\/p>\n<p>I applied the process given and divided my circle into 5 equal parts (the semi-circles have centres on the diameter of the large circle, and each semi-circle is a multiple of 1\/5 of the large diameter).<\/p>\n<p>Here it is, using squareCircleZ colors: \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/04\/equi-area2.gif\" alt=\"dividing a circle into equal parts\" width=\"420\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/equal-areas-of-a-circle-gives-nice-art-1079#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/equal-areas-of-a-circle-gives-nice-art-1079\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/04\/equi-area2-thumb.gif\" alt=\"dividing a circle into equal parts\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Here's some nice geometry. It's a way to divide a circle into equal areas, using a pair of compasses and a ruler only.<\/p>\n<p>And it's not bad art, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}