Create rings for ringed planet procedurally

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Trying to create a ringed texture like the one in this image in a more procedural way using Blender nodes

I could achieve this with a color ramp, but I do not want to manually edit each ring but rather to create it in a more procedural manner
I decided to give a try to the wave texture and created in total 4 wave textures with different parameters of scale and then add them all together and got this:

However, given the level of detail (very fine rings) I want to give, there would be needed many nodes of wave texture and that would be very unelegant.
What would be the best approach to do something like that in Blender?
EDIT: this is the current node aproach (as I said, it is not elegant at all)

lemon · Accepted Answer

One way to do something similar is to get the length from the object center and apply a noise (random) texture on it.

The first three nodes:

Get the length from object origin (center of the disk)
Calculate a sinus of the length (alternate from -1 to 1)
Map it in positive values to -1/1 to 0/1

The next three nodes are about to add randomness and control over it:

Rgb curve to distort the mapping
Noise texture to get randomness
Color ramp to choose how the values are mapped

Create rings for ringed planet procedurally

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