Did BeOS not have a very similar animation in one of its 3d demonstration widgets? The one you could drop images or videos on, flip pages and have them deformed

Did BeOS not have a very similar animation in one of its 3d demonstration widgets? The one you could drop images or videos on, flip pages and have them deformed and rendered in real time? That was, what, in the mid-90s? 15 years before Apple's patent was even filled?