Total area for a natural nested set of convex polygons.
Suppose we have a convex polygon with n given vertices, and we want to "nest" polygons for by taking the midpoints between edges of as the vertices. For a regular polygon the total area of all the polygons will form a geometric series that is pretty easy to solve for (at least in terms of trig functions) in terms of the area A of the original polygon . However, what if is not regular? If we know the area of , is there a formula for the sum of areas of all the nested polygons, in terms of n and the original area? Or do we need more information, like the vertices of ? If we need to know the vertices, are there formulas in terms of the vertices at least for some small values of n, like ?