Ajax (jquery) Or Flash: Genealogy/relationship Script

Hi,

I’m not sure which scripting method I need for this.
I’m going to assume it’s AJAX (jQuery) or Flash.
I’ll explain what it is I would like to accomplish.

Image there is a “web” of icons, this web consists of 6 “nodes”.
Each icon (A, B, C, D, E and F) are small image links with a title.
Like so:

     B
     |
F – A – C
    / \
   E   D

Now image that a user clicks on icon “C”.
Somehow, the whole web would “zoom” to the right.
The “C” icon would be in the middle now.0
New icons for G, H, I and J would be shown.
“A” would be the same icon from above.

     G
     |
A – C – H
    / \
   J   I

All the icon data would be pulled from MySQL.
The relationship would keep going until there were no more specified icons (nodes).
I would like the script to be fast and not to involve and page loading.

I hope I’ve made my idea clear.

Any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Regards,
Colin

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