This material is based on the iconic decorative mosaic tiles found inside the San Francisco Ferry Building, featuring hand-laid stone tiles arranged into repeated framed motifs, animals, fruit, and geometric patterns embedded within a warm limestone and terracotta tile floor.

The material captures the irregular nature of real-world mosaic construction: uneven tile placement, subtle height variation, hand-set grout lines, and natural surface wear accumulated over decades of foot traffic. Each mosaic panel is framed by contrasting tile borders, giving the material a strong sense of structure while still retaining organic variation across the surface.

Great care was taken to balance readability at mid-range with believable micro-detail up close, making this material well suited for environment art, architectural visualization, historical scenes, and stylized realism workflows. Height information focuses on grout separation and tile edges rather than exaggerated relief, ensuring the material behaves predictably in real-time engines and offline renders.