Mechanism for Drawing Intersection of Cylinder and Plane

Input: pink crank.
Point of blue slider draws intersection (orange ellipse) of yellow cylinder and a plane. The plane is parallel to the one that is created by the longitudinal axis of violet slider during motion.
Cylinder axis and rotary axis of the pink crank are in line.
Point of the blue slider lays on sliding axis of the latter.
Adjust tilt angle of the brown bearing to get various intersections.

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