"Bad Displacement" in Real Life

[WAS]

This is what I was talking about awhile back with Dune. Sometimes we will create displacement in Terragen and sometimes we may use a seed or or settings that we may call "wrong" cause it gives random peaks, or the lateral looks to jagged. If I was going through seeds I might skip something like this cause of the peaks or some of the jagged lateral going over the sedimentary.

This is Three Finger jack in Oregon. A remnant of a larger shield volcano.

[WAS]

Some more examples.

Definitely going to think twice about seeds now, and have new ideas. Conglomerate is one I've been wanting to do better and that first image wow. What a goal.

[DannyG]

Those last few images look like Old Mojoworld Spires and general displacements

[D.A. Bentley (SuddenPlanet)]

I remember a MacGyver episode (Season 2 Episode 8 - "Eagles") where MacGyver landed on top of one of those pointy peaks while flying a hang glider. 

[WAS]

I remember a MacGyver episode (Season 2 Episode 8 - "Eagles") where MacGyver landed on top of one of those pointy peaks while flying a hang glider. 

Hahaha, I love that show. I used to a be a huge Richard Dean Anderson fan.

[RichTwo]

That is the kind of things I wish I could recreate - the randomness and chaos, and yet seemingly orderly landforms that Nature alone creates. Whenever I see those in one of my renders, it's due to too much of something - displacement, warp, fractal parameters, you name it.  It'd be great to, say have randomly spiked towers that wouldn't come to a sharp point - some way to make them look like you did something "bad".

[WAS]

That is the kind of things I wish I could recreate - the randomness and chaos, and yet seemingly orderly landforms that Nature alone creates. Whenever I see those in one of my renders, it's due to too much of something - displacement, warp, fractal parameters, you name it.  It'd be great to, say have randomly spiked towers that wouldn't come to a sharp point - some way to make them look like you did something "bad".

Yeah I know what you mean there. Though to your point on spiked towers, this could be achieve with a voronoi billows, decent scale, and than have a higher contrast, and negative offset to get "dots" and than use the soft maximum node to clamp the peaks of the circles, and that should create towers with flat tops.