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Equivalent square of a equilateral triangle

Following a twitter discussion.. In 1486, Matthias Roriczer presented this method for constructing a square equal in area to a given equilateral triangle. Does it work? https://twitter.com/solvemymaths/status/948463424463425536 It turned out that Roriczer's method couldn't work but was just an approximation (rather good). I then tried to find out an exact solution to the problem of constructing a square equivalent (in area) to a given equilateral triangle. Here is my solution.

Equivalent square of a equilateral triangle

Improvement

After I had posted above construction @Simon_Gregg twitted an amazingly alternative construction, much more simple and simply beautiful. Here is my Geogebra's reproduction based on his figure.

Simon Gregg's version

Simon Gregg's figure

Simon Gregg's figure