Would linear increase of a muscle's dimension increase the power as well?

The square-cube law applies to bodies with the same shape, and require them to be increased/decreased in all three dimensions. If you were to take a cube, with every edge being a long, and expand it to be 3a in length on the y axis, it would be three times the weight and area. And with that, you just defeated the only hurdle standing between you and your giant woman fetish.

Okay, maybe not that, but it sounds reasonable for muscles. The magnitude of force, exerted by the muscle, is the function of the muscle's cross-section, after all, though it gets wonky with certain arrangements. It does bring up the question of attachment sites, but we'll deal with that later.

Would scaling muscles in one axis only be able to avoid the square-cube law and linearly increase the force-generating ability?

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