Pythagorean Theorem Without Words

Introduction

The pythagorean theorem lends itself easily to a wide variety of visual proofs. Try and figure out the logic behind them. I find it to be clearer in some cases than others.

This is partly inspired by Neal Stephenson's "Anathema" as well as numerous other visual proofs online. There's a lot of really good ones, but I think there's some room for improvement.

The Pythagorean Theorem

Attempt 1

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Attempt 2

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Attempt 3 (based on Euclid)

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Bonus (Perpendicular Bisector Theorem)

I don't remember why I made this, but I suspect it has something to do with Fortune's algorithm.

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