# OOP AS2 and Complex Data Visualization

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oop-as2-and-complex-data-visualization/203722
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 13, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oop-as2-and-complex-data-visualization/203722 "2006-10-13T13:28:19Z")
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### Author: ![Kraken](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kraken/32/2910_2.png) [@Kraken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kraken)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oop-as2-and-complex-data-visualization/203722/1 "2006-10-13T13:28:19Z")

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Ok, I’ve gotten it in my head to finally jump into object-oriented programming and what I want to create is something like the [visual thesaurus or something linked on the [url=http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/]Visual complexity](http://www.visualthesaurus.com/) site.

So, I’ve seen Samuel Wan’s [treemap, but that is written in AS1 and I’ve looked at the Java algorithms on the [url=http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/treemap/]U of Maryland](http://www.samuelwan.com/information/archives/000159.html) pages, but can anyone give me some suggestions of how to start this in flash 8, publishing to player 8, using object oriented best practices? Would this be a classic example of MVC? And if so, how would you go about it?