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title: "Glass that merges"
description: "Lesson 11.2 of Creator Terminal's lesson films (Materials): Make two glass buttons flow into one as they meet, and part again like water, the way Apple's controls do, with Spacing."
canonical: "https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/glass-that-merges/"
last_updated: 2026-11-04
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# Glass that merges

> Lesson 11.2 of Creator Terminal's lesson films (Materials): Make two glass buttons flow into one as they meet, and part again like water, the way Apple's controls do, with Spacing.

- The film (1:10): https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/media/11.2-glass-that-merges/2054bb4093cb/11.2-glass-that-merges.mp4
- Vertical cut: https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/media/11.2-glass-that-merges/a19eea801610/11.2-glass-that-merges-vertical.mp4
- Captions: https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/media/11.2-glass-that-merges/9533d8f21883/11.2-glass-that-merges.vtt
- The page: https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/glass-that-merges/

## In this lesson

### Two glass buttons (0:09)

Here's a photo viewer, with two glass buttons floating over the picture. Look at their rims. They bend the hills behind them.

### They meet (0:18)

The toolbar slides them together, at two seconds. Press Shift-L six times to get there. They meet, but as two pieces of glass, with a seam where they touch.

### Spacing (0:30)

Glass close together can join, like drops of water. Click the buttons. In the rail, click more, then the value beside Spacing. Type one hundred and twenty, and press return.

### One, then apart (0:42)

Now they flow into one. Press escape twice, then step on, with Shift-L, as they part. The glass stretches between them, like water, and lets go.

### Watch them (0:54)

Press zero, and space. The hills drift beneath, bending at every rim, as two buttons meet, become one, and part.