I am no master of this at all.
But I found I could only have a little success trying to get the same displacement that is easily applied to a large spire, on a small one.
Here is the displacements from the tower tut applied to a much more real scale spire. As you can see it works, but not as nicely as the giant monolith.
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So I am following this thread with great hope. I have a lot of ideas a solution would help me produce.