algorithm for generating interesting normal symmetric continuous functions

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Does any one know of, or can think of an algorithm which generates arbitrarily many symmetric normally distributed continuous functions? And when I say interesting I mean more complex distributions then an offset bell curve.

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Clarifying our discussion in the comments.

Consider generating a sequence of real pairs $\left(\mu_k, \sigma_k\right)_{k=1}^N$ with $\sigma_k > 0$ for each $k$.

Then, for each $k$, consider the pdf of the $\mathcal{N} \left(\mu_k, \sigma_k \right)$ distribution, which is given by

$$ f(x) = \frac{\exp \left( -\frac{1}{2} \left(\frac{x-\mu_k}{\sigma_k}\right)^2 \right)} {\sigma_k \sqrt{2\pi}}. $$