How would I go about creating this rippling facade?

I've gotten close following a tutorial from youtube, but it's limiting because it only lets me use a graph as the ripples. are there other ways to include more ripples? Would appreciate any help (my version of the ripple facade and nodes are attached)

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Capture2.PNG, 271 KB
Parametric Facade Undulation 3.gh, 13 KB

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 19, 2017 at 2:58pm

Do you really expect anyone to recreate your GH code from a screen shot? See #3:

3. Attach minimal versions of all the relevant files
If you have a GH/GHX file you have a question about, attach it to the post. Don't expect that people will recreate a file based on a screen-shot because that's a lot of pointless work. It's also a good idea to remove everything non-essential from a GH file. You can use the 'Internalize Data' menu option to cut everything to the left of a parameter:

Permalink Reply by Marco Nieto on November 19, 2017 at 3:02pm

Sorry, new to this. I've attached it.

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 19, 2017 at 4:00pm

I added two more graphs, top and bottom points, and reset all the 'Graph Mappers' to the '0 to 1' domain, which allows overall width and height to be parametric, thanks to 'ReMap'.

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ParametricFacadeUndulation_2017Nov19a.gh, 25 KB

Permalink Reply by Marco Nieto on November 19, 2017 at 4:09pm

awesome, thank you very much! ReMap sure looks very useful

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 19, 2017 at 4:22pm

ReMap sure looks very useful

It sure is! Notice that it's used once for width and five times (one for each graph) for portions of the height domain, provided by 'Divide Domain (Div)':

Permalink Reply by Marco Nieto on November 19, 2017 at 5:41pm

Wow, I'll definitely have to keep it in mind moving forward!

Side question, I hope you don't mind. Would there be a way to have this undulating facade wrap around a rectangle shape and maintain the same curves throughout all four faces, rather than individually create each face and hope they line up?

This is a much different example, but a helpful visualization. So how would I be able to have this louver facade wrap around the building and still maintain the points created by ReMap and the graphs?

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 19, 2017 at 6:05pm

Would there be a way to have this undulating facade wrap around a rectangle shape and maintain the same curves throughout all four faces, rather than individually create each face and hope they line up?

I'm sure there is but I'm not going to take it on. My first thought is to use the entire perimeter length as the "width" and create enough zig-zag verticals to wrap the building in a continuous pattern. But then you have to partition the results with appropriate quantities for all four sides, re-orient them and make sure they are evenly distributed on each side, end-to-end. There's no trick I know of, just hard work and creativity.