Movie S2.

The propagation event from Movie S1, with the locations of the individual bistable elements tracked. The quantity being plotted is S^i, the minimum normalized distance to the nearest stable configuration for each of the i bistable elements.

Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy

Jordan R. Raney, Neel Nadkarni, Chiara Daraio, Dennis M. Kochmann, Jennifer A. Lewis, and Katia Bertoldi

PNAS. 2016. 113:9722-9727 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604838113