SeedRandom expression, how to stop it? from Dan Ebbert's tutorial

Question

Hi, I'm applying Dan Ebbert's values from his tutorial to use SeedRandom here below.I applied it to an amount of dots forming a letter.The random movement of each dot is perfect, but I want to control time and make it stop to the initial position (letter formed by dots).Also interested to start from the letter formed, to a SeedRandom movement, than back to initial position.Any clues to get it?Thanks a lot for your helpsegMin = .3; //minimum segment duration
segMax = .7; //maximum segment duration
minVal = 0;
maxVal = thisComp.width;

end = 0;
j = 0;
while ( time >= end){
  j += 1;
  seedRandom(j,true);
  start = end;
  end += random(segMin,segMax);
}
endVal =  random(minVal,maxVal);
seedRandom(j-1,true);
dummy=random(); //this is a throw-away value
startVal =  random(minVal,maxVal);
y = position[1];
ease(time,start,end,[startVal,y],[endVal,y])

Dan Ebberts · Accepted Answer

I think this version will do it. It has a new variable, totalDur, after which the animation will settle back to the original value:

segMin = .3; //minimum segment duration
segMax = .7; //maximum segment duration
minVal = 0;
maxVal = thisComp.width;
totalDur = 5; // length of animation

start = end = 0;
j = 0;
prevTarget = target = value[0];
while (time >= end){
  prevTarget = target;
  seedRandom(j,true);
  target = random(minVal,maxVal);
  start = end;
  end += random(segMin,segMax);
  if (end > totalDur) target = value[0];
  j++;
}
y = value[1];
ease(time,start,end,[prevTarget,y],[target,y]);

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