It’s visual accessibility, it would be great to have an option to choose between either.
Visually it mimics the logic of actual tree branches which branch vertically rather than in the horizontal. The data “flowing down” to these nodes that have multiple inputs I found is easier to follow, read, and organize. Especially when you have multiple chains of nodes in a script, the horizontal format can be really confusing for some, or just slower to make sense of what is happening. With a vertical option, these chains of nodes can be organized side by side without losing track of their correlation.
I find this format could be extremely useful to clean up larger scripts such as this example from the forum:
And this image:
from this forum:
An example of a large vertical script:
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My argument is that larger scripts tend to go vertical naturally in grasshopper and for those vertically aligned folks who tend to get into large node networks it can be extremely helpful!
Thanks so much!
-a big grasshopper fan, Jas