Allegorithmic released for free his Wooden Floor Material Generator for Autodesk 3DsMax 2012 and Autodesk Maya2012. With this you can create realistic parquet in just minutes. The task to create a realistic looking material to simulate parquet is not easy; each floorboard must be unique, uneven with its own properties and defects. Allegorithmic created a powerful dedicated filter allowing creating unique parquet floors, recreating all the subtle imperfections that will give life to your imagery.
You just have to pick an image as input and real time you can control almost everything on your new parquet material. More in the video below.
Source and full article: Allegorithmic