Did Apple copy Sun's technology??

I went to a Sun Microsystems World Tour event last week in which they showcased their latest technologies. During one of the demos they showed how easy it is to code something that looked very, very, very similar to the Cover Flow view in iTunes (where you can scroll through the album art in your music collection). They added another block of code and it showed a gradient reflection of the pictures, also a feature of the Cover Flow view.
I was wondering who came up with this first...Apple or Sun?
Or does Apple simply use Sun's technology?
Thank you!

not sure. i managed to track down a bit of information on the original software at Wikipedia:
Wikipedia: Cover Flow

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