# N-Ary tree
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/n-ary-tree/42116
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [February 5, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/n-ary-tree/42116 "2004-02-05T12:23:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Cruiser](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Cruiser)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/n-ary-tree/42116/1 "2004-02-05T12:23:05Z")
Hi board,
I need to display a n-ary tree. Does anybody have an implementation or logic to position the various nodes?
The tree can be arbritrarily huge.
Currently the nodes are library - movieClips and added to the \_root using attachMovieClip and the connectors/edges are done using lines. The tree is not being displayed as of yet its just adding to nodes at random positions and drawing a line between them. ☹
Help. Any other stratergy to display the tree could also be used but the nodes should be draggable more precisely a node can be dragged and dropped into another node.
Thanks.
Cruiser.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2004, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/n-ary-tree/42116/2 "2004-02-06T09:31:16Z")
Hoi
I would like to help but i dunno what you what to achieve.
maybe you can show what you all ready have 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/n-ary-tree/42116/3 "2004-02-07T05:49:01Z")
Hi,
You would get a better idea if you see [http://www.touchgraph.com/PlanetWissen.html](http://www.touchgraph.com/PlanetWissen.html)
That is a 2d model but the nodes are all around. I want to do the same thing but the child nodes are always below the parent node. The physics aren’t necessary.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/n-ary-tree/42116/4 "2004-02-08T10:31:15Z")
```auto
randomleeway = 10
spaceing = 20
this._x = (Math.random()*randomleeway-randomleeway/2)+ParentNode._x;
this._y = (Math.random()*randomleeway-randomleeway/2)+ParentNode._y+spaceing;
```
some thing like that?