Octane for Houdini

The Sine Wave, Saw Wave and Triangle Wave textures can create various banding effects. A Transform node is often connected to the node's Transform pin in order to provide better results across a surface (Figure 1). The Offset parameter can shift the surface pattern's position.

Figure 1: Using a Transform node with the Saw Wave texture node 

The primary difference between the three wave types is in the way they render the edges of the waves (figure 2).

Figure 2: From left to right: Saw, Sine, and Triangle Wave