The cutting plane's relation to a cone's base determines the section family. A parallel cut stays at one height, where every point on the cone's boundary is the same distance from the central axis; moving toward the vertex changes that distance but not the symmetry. Interpret the section in its own plane rather than by its foreshortened appearance.
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