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No - you can't square the circle, but you can get the square-root of 2.

Choose a corner and truncate, measure the edge length using a compass, and use that to draw the rest of the owl.

You can do it, but you end up with horizontal and vertical edges that are misaligned with the grid.

And I saw the opportunity to make a bad joke.



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