'appear to capture' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that seems to capture or hold the attention of a viewer or reader. For example, "The vivid colors of the sunset appear to capture the attention of all who observe it."
Moreover, they appear to capture many essential features of complex self-organizing cooperative behavior observed in real systems.
Recordings of phone-tapped conversations leaked on the internet appear to capture Erdogan instructing his 33-year-old son, Bilal, to dispose of large amounts of hidden funds from their private home in the midst of a corruption investigation.
Furthermore, the molecular simulations provide a meaningful representation for the elastomer studied and additionally appear to capture the fundamental principles of sorption and diffusion of the chosen probe gases.
However, despite its importance, there is no fully accepted definition of helplessness or behavioral control in psychology or psychiatry, and the formal treatments in engineering appear to capture only limited aspects of the intuitive concepts.
Mr. Gibson's latest woes have clustered around recordings, dribbled out by the Web site Radaronline.com, that appear to capture him screaming insults, threats and at least one racial epithet at the Russian model and musician Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he has been in a custody dispute over their child.
While the existing biofilter models appear to capture adequately the transport and reaction phenomena at the biofilm scale, they poorly address, or provide little insight about the connection between the aerodynamics, biological filtration (or clogging) and biokinetics at the bioreactor length scale.
