The Ability to artfully fuse Creativity and technology, The program is light and brilliant interms of computing the craft in a brilliant manner.

For me, the most important feature of houdini is the node workflow, when you create procedures it's really easy to combine, reuse or even review the work you have done. Furthermore, Features like the packing geometry allow an excellent performance which means you require less hardware resources to achieve good or even great results!

I love the procedural nature of the software and the fact that every task or job can be built into a tool and incorporated on the pipeline. The copy sop provides a robust way of duplicating geometry and randomizing it's attributes. The attrib VOP allows for a nice way of visual programming in VEX, making it possible to work with scripts without really having to learn to program.