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by JHonaker 2972 days ago
My first instinct says that if you just project the corners straight down (because of orthographic projection) onto the XZ plane, then the area of the shadow is just the area of the convex hull of those projected points.

I don’t know how to calculate that hull off the top of my head, but that’s the type of stuff you can look up during real world scenarios.