Group of clips avoiding each other via rotation

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I am trying to accomplish something similar to the map icons in Sims 3, where you have little clips that avoid each other but stay rotated around a static point.


I am trying to use atan2 to accomplish this but I don't think I have it correct.

Here is my current code (AS2 at the moment, until I get a chance to upgrade from F8):

import flash.geom.Point;

var tags:Array = [tag01, tag02, tag03];

_root.onMouseUp = function()
{
	tag01._x = _xmouse;
	tag01._y = _ymouse;
}

this.onEnterFrame = function()
{
	var clip1:MovieClip;
	var clip2:MovieClip;
	
	for(var i:Number = 0; i < tags.length; i++)
	{
		for(var j:Number = 0; j< tags.length; j++)
		{
			if(tags[j] != tags[i])
			{
				clip1 = tags[i];
				clip2 = tags[j];
				
				var coord:Point = localToLocal(clip1, _root, {x:clip1.head._x, y: clip1.head._y});
				
				var coord2:Point = localToLocal(clip2, _root, {x:clip2.head._x, y: clip2.head._y});
				
				var rot:Number = Math.atan2(coord2.y-coord.y, coord2.x - coord.x)/Math.PI*180;
				
				clip1._rotation = rot;
			}
		}
	}	
}

function localToLocal(containerFrom:MovieClip, containerTo:MovieClip, origin:Object):Point
{
	var point:Object = origin == undefined ? {x: 0, y: 0} : origin;
	containerFrom.localToGlobal(point);
	containerTo.globalToLocal(point);
	
	return new Point(point.x, point.y);
}