LogInJoshuah Wolper and a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania presented a new approach to simulating anisotropic damage.
Basically, the new approach helps simulate complex surfaces in a stunningly realistic way.
"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." The team presented AnisoMPM (SIGGRAPH 2020 entry), a novel approach to animating the dynamic fracture of isotropic, transversely isotropic, and orthotropic materials. The new system is said to be based on three core components: a technique for anisotropic damage evolution, methods for anisotropic elastic response, and a coupling approach.
When it comes to anisotropic damage, researchers "adopt a non-local continuum damage mechanics (CDM) geometric approach to crack modeling and augment this with structural tensors to encode material anisotropy."
You can learn more here. The team will soon share their paper and more materials.