It should probably be said that the things on this blog are not exercises in design, they’re technical exercises . And they’re experiments more generally, hence the name.

The curtain mesh for example was not something I thought about putting into an app, actually. Because I do think it’s somewhat tacky and generally a bit much. You could probably get away with it in an app for kids or something. It is, however, also satisfying to use and people seem to like it, so that’s in a sense the ideal outcome of one of those posts - to rethink things.

The curtain mesh has quite a lot of variables one can change and experiment with. You can obviously increase folds, change their subdivisions vertically and horizontally, change the way their width changes from left to right, change the way they form, the way how the curtain bunches up and many more things. Sometimes things end up looking unrealistic but still sort of interesting. Here is one of those examples.