Hi Julian,

Data trees are the way Grasshopper stores information and unfortunately, this part is very boring, yes. It is also crucial to understand this. Think of it as those pesky classes of mechanics, statics, calculating moments of inertia, and learning material properties of concrete steel etc. when in university.

Looking at those classes on themselves they make no sense, but in a broader sense, they do pay of. When designing al of a sudden you know how to calculate the thickness of a concrete floor by knowing the span width or the position of columns and the core in a building, because you know the flow of the forces etc.

Watch this course if you need a real-life example of the need to organize your data in data trees (instead of flattering) It also has some Galapagos in it.

https://thinkparametric.com/courses/panel-clustering-using-machine-learning-soumaya-museum

Best,

Arie