Dynamic fracture surrounds us in our day-to-day lives, but animating this phenomenon is
notoriously difficult and only further complicated by anisotropic materials---those with
underlying structures that dictate preferred fracture directions. Thus, we present AnisoMPM:
a robust and general approach for animating the dynamic fracture of isotropic, transversely
isotropic, and orthotropic materials. AnisoMPM has three core components: a technique for
anisotropic damage evolution, methods for anisotropic elastic response, and a coupling …