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Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to read my long essay and give your feedback! I think there are valid points here, and I will incorporate them to my revised edition soon. I'll reply some comments here individually.

That's true! On the Mac there's only one glass pane (the other half is the chassis/keyboard), so my idea was that the lid is just a kind of window into a fourth-dimensional space where the actual screen lives. When you open the lid, you're moving it closer to this "ethereal" screen until the two attach. As you close it, the screen stays fixed in that "virtual" space, so the angled glass distorts the light.

I'm aware it may not make sense physics-wise, eh. :)

Yeah, I had my suspicion whether it would work universally. It uses WebGPU, fallbacks to WebGL2, and if that fails too it should fallback to a fixed image. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out over the weekend!

I understand there are grey areas in what you say, but I'm not a lawyer.

"Built with GPT-6 Astra" it may mean you asked "look at the iPhone Duo page and build me the folding effect but for the MacBook", or that you ideated how it should look, what tuning options should have, discuss performance optimizations, and so on.

I do make the distinction between those two, and for the latter, which was my case, I do think there's claimable copyright.

However, I'm not interested in claiming anything regardless I would have the right or not. What I do intend, is that if somebody else builds upon this work, they do it within the OSS space as well.

If that can be legally enforced or not, well I won't stress about it.

Thank you! I feel that I iterated that more than I should have, but I wanted to look really smooth.

Yeah, I literally said in my comment that I'm aware it doesn't make much sense :) I agree with you! I just saw it on the Duo and fancied seeing it on my Mac. But if you try it, or watch the animation closely, you'll see I made some changes to the effect. For the Mac, my idea was that the lid is just a kind of window into a fourth-dimensional space where the actual screen lives. When you open the lid, you're moving it closer to this "ethereal" screen until the two attach.

Agree if we look at the next few years. However, hardware is also making significant progress. Have you seen Taalas? https://taalas.com/products/