How does google swirl work?

Question

I have seen this image swirl effect on a visual thesaurus. Is there any open source code for this?

I don't care about the algorithm to match similar objects. I only am wondering about the effects.

Answer 1

there is such a thing for flex: http://mark-shepherd.com/blog/2006/11/17/a-flex-component-for-graph-visualization/

without looking at the code, I guess it should be quite easy to port to pure ActionScript. Maybe you can even use it as a starting point for a JavaScript port.

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