When confronting shapes and sizes, one should look for anything that unifies with squares, circles, and triangles, but make sure the final form is octagonal.
That should get you to the coordinates without too much shape-shifting.
Congrats to annevoi and FifiBonacci for FTF - Way to square it up!
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