Animating polygon must have same number of points

You can show an SVG polygon changing shape with SVG's animate tag.

<polygon points="100,100 0,100 0,0">
  <animate
    to="50,50 0,50 0,0"
    from="100,100 0,100 0,0"
    dur="10s"
    attributeName="points"
  />
</polygon>

However, you can not animate a shape change to a different number of points. For instance if you have three points in the to attribute and four points in the from attribute, then nothing will happen.

Recently, I wanted to animate a change from a 4 pointed polygon to a 5 pointed polygon. In this case, I included an extra point in the 4 pointed polygon that was a duplicate of an existing point and right next to that same duplicated point. When changing shape to a 5 pointed polygon, the previously duplicated point moved out from that spot to its new spot and the polygon adjusted accordingly and pleasingly.

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