I forgot to say - the videos show exactly the "the network of force chains buried in the beads" referred to in the article - there are annoyingly tinysnapshots on the journal article's abstract page (url below), but they appear to be too tiny to see much.
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.144502
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