Houdini's volume wrangle can define the shape of volumes and iso surfaces with mathematical formulas.
For a simple sphere we take in the radius parameter r and disassemble the position vector v@P using the assign VEX function. Next, a distance equation using x, y and z gets assigned to the volume named f@d.
float r = chf('radius');
float x, y, z;
assign(x, y, z, v@P);
f@d = x * x + y * y + z * z - r;
float a = chf('a');
float x, y, z;
assign(x, y, z, v@P);
f@d = sin(x / a) * cos(y / a) + sin(y / a) * cos(z / a) + sin(z / a) * cos(x / a);
