Hi Martina,

Yes, Path and Branch mean the same thing. A Path is referred to as a Branch as a Tree metaphor. As in the Tree is your whole data structure with different inputs (in your case 11 branches) and the individual Branches hold all the individual objects (in this case 11 points). So yo have 11 points per branch and in total also 11 branches. It is the way Grasshopper organizes and stores more complex lists of data. It is hard to grasp in the beginning, it took me also some time to understand it also with the weird curly brackets and semicolons. But this is the core of Grasshopper, unfortunately. It is paramount to understand this if you want to create more complex definitions in Grasshopper. We're updating this course as we speak and we're trying to look into a way of explaining this the best way possible.

The reason the text is overlapping is that you're inputting 11 values per branch. So what you're seeing is 0,1,2,3,4.....10 all overlapping per point. You have to graft the T-input (create a branch per input) for it to display correctly. If this sounds like mumbo jumbo, please check out https://thinkparametric.com/courses/grasshopper-102-data-lists-and-tree-structures/ I explain a bit more in depth how data and lists are organized in Grasshopper.

I know this can be very frustrating to understand, but you're asking questions and trying to figure it out, this is great! Please don't give up. You can always email me at arie@thinkparametric.com because I don't check the forum that often.

I've included a screenshot to display the text in a correct way

Best,

Arie