Looking at it i figured out that white=100% of the random value and black=0% of the random value and the greys are the in between values according to how light of dark the grey is. what I find confusing is the concept of color (black, white, grey) controlling something. I’m not sure why random cant just have an extra controller called “random timing” or something. 0%= everything starts and stops at the same time 100% would be the most extreme variance in start stop timing.
They probably have much large fish to fry.
This got me thinking, I switched from noise to gradient and I animated the white turning into black and it animated in a linear fashion along the x axis with the blocks in the black area not being effected and the blocks in the white area being fully effected. Rotating it 90 degrees (2d -v) it animated vertically along the Y axis. I think i get this concept now.
thanks for the help.