are you saying that using less code, more steps and less maths with a simpler algorithm requiring much less knowledge is going to make more obfuscated code?

any mathsy code is going to be obfuscated without comments explaining the underlying assumptions and for geometric stuff like this what you really want is diagrams...

I may have misread your disappointment. I thought you were critiquing this IOCCC entry on its merits as an IOCCC entry.