Solution

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At height , the horizontal triangle has half-width along and depth along . These shrink with , so its orthogonal projection onto the plane is the base triangle with vertices , and :
The orthogonal projection onto the plane is the triangle with vertices , and :
The orthogonal projection onto the plane is bounded by , and the two curves
Equivalently, these curves lie on the parabola , truncated at height . In particular the top width is , so this projection has a horizontal upper edge from to ; it is not triangular. The top horizontal cross-section has zero depth, consistent with this edge.
Figure 1.
The three coordinate projections of the triangular-section solid in Question 12
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