Try this tutorial...it kinda gives you one of the wire looks you are going for...if you make your EP curve varied in both the x and y planes, then you can get a more random extrude. Then you could just random the rotation values to get various shapes...and move the final vertice components to make it not so basic and repeating.

https://www.christerb.com/tutorials/m...ral/index.html

Here is my try at it...