IN PROGRESS
Revisiting “wisteria” 3D shapes and their possible automation, reviewed a collection of blog posts, including repeat options that formed open, highly textured knits, with ladders, eyelets, and sometimes added patterning.
This repeat forms a more compact, textured surface with none of the large, open spaces in those knits, only the eyelets that form when short rowing designs in two-row sequences.
The chart could be followed in hand-selecting short rows, and can be expanded in height for wider stitch counts. The single repeat is 50X90. 
Depending on your machine model and download software, i.e., with my 930, it may require mirroring horizontally.
The first preselection row is from right to left.
Claw weights will be needed as each shape forms to keep stitches from jumping off.
This sample was knit using 2/8 wool, aiming for maximum texture. 
Even with a switch to thinner yarns, the attempt to introduce a second color did not get far with yarn and stitches “refusing to cooperate”.