Decorative flooring

[ZooHead]

Green Ball on Red Hex Tile.

 

[joel ruiz c]

That looks nice, is it a texture with displacement? a shader?

 

[ZooHead]

It's two beveled hex extrusions with two Array Modifiers.
The grout is a plane lowered slightly.

 

[ZooHead]

And rendered with Falcon for it's great handling of HDR lighting.
HDR image: cayley_interior_4k (from HDRI Haven)

 

[ZooHead]

Here's what the setup looks like.

 

[ZooHead]

Added a little bling.

 

[ZooHead]

In this one I reduced the depth and width of the grout lines.

 

[frank beckmann]

While I like the idea and the composition I feel somehow uncomfortable with the too perfect surface of the tiles and the blown out reflections.
By way of illustration:

Cheers
Frank

 

[ZooHead]

Excellent suggestions.

Here's one with adjusted lighting and a slight crumple to the tiles.

 

[frank beckmann]

Look&Feel is more "organic" I find.

Cheers
Frank

 

[ZooHead]

I want to put a honey bee on the ball but so far I've had no luck getting anything to look good.