“Essentially, we’re looking at different frequencies of vibration, which represent a different way that an object can move. By identifying those shapes and frequencies, we can predict how an object will react in new situations,” Abe Davis, the lead researcher on the project, told Digital Trends.
“One way to think about it, is if I point my camera at a bush and I watch the wind rustle that bush for a whole minute, I’m watching a bunch of tiny movements of the bush, which are responses to various forces,” Davis explained.
Those movements are categorized as vibrations operating at various frequencies. Then, software can take the video and analyze those vibrations.
By recording the bush’s reaction to the wind, the software can eventually figure out how it might react to a brick
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