Pythagorean Generator

Author:John Golden

Another PCMI15 inspired sketch. (Day 9, #10) A neat fact about the square of a Gaussian integer (integer +i*integer) gives a way to generate Pythagorean triples. I always wanted to make a sketch that visualized it, so...

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