Movie S1.

View of the 3D layered cellular metamaterial prototype as it is compressed into the plane of the figure. A subset of beams singled out by topological states of self-stress in the underlying frame buckles out of the layer producing a distinctive visual signature.

Selective buckling via states of self-stress in topological metamaterials

Jayson Paulose, Anne S. Meeussen, and Vincenzo Vitelli

PNAS. 2015. 112:7639-7644 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1502939112