In addition to tools for creating extruded materials, RED 2.5 also includes procedural Natural Media, which can either be applied to the faces of 2D or 3D objects including text, or serve as backgrounds for RED compositions.

Because they are mathematically generated textures, they display smoothly at any scale. Each texture category includes a variety of animatable parameters, any of which may saved to the RED Style Palette. (The Style Palette also comes with dozens of preset, editable textures.)

Natural Media types include Wood, Wood Plank, Fractal Noise, Marble, Granite, Fabric, Reptilian and Random Color. Any of these can be applied as realistic surfaces, or animated as organic backgrounds.

Variations on a theme: marble mapped to a sphere, intersecting with a random color plane. Click images above to open movies. Both approx. 1 MB

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