Hierarchical Chaos 2: Glass to or fro?

Alongside generally approved backpedals and tweaks to Liquid Glass, the ‘27 cycle of OS releases from Apple brought about some newer, more curious appearances of the material. Glass has never been this liquid, they say.I want to examine some of these new forms and see if they achieve what Liquid Glass purportedly set out to do, or at least achieve their own intended design. Figure 1: Siri conversations grid In the new Siri app, if a past conversation contained some key image, it’s features in the conversation’s grid item. This key image is warped, as if a curved glass surface is above it. Don’t even get me started about the protein content of schnitzel, ok. You can easily imagine the shape and make of this metaphorical item mounted on a wall: A printed image or piece of paper, and stuck to it is a perfectly fitted curved glass roof.My thoughts? Pretty fun effect! I see no harm done in a unique implementation of a visual effect closely associated with Siri. This is a static display…