Magento subcat & sub-sub cat on view.phtml

Question

Looking to dynamically show all subcategories of a current category "brand page" for example, but also, to show each of those subcat's categories, (so two levels shown on the primary top level page.) - like the attached diagram:

on a main category page like with div's or li's:

SUBCATEGORY

Sub-Sub 1, Sub-sub2, Sub-Sub 3

SUBCATEGORY 2

Sub-Sub 1, Sub-sub2, Sub-Sub 3

SUBCATEGORY 3

Sub-Sub 1, Sub-sub2, Sub-Sub 3

I've done a lot of searching and found similar but not exactly the right thing. This was closest thing I could find:

http://magentoo.blogspot.com/2014/01/get-all-subcategories-of-parent-category-magento.html

M21 M21 · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-12T16:14:49

I have modified pieces of code from around the web together to make it work without having ti hard-code it into each top level category...

this did the trick:

<?php 

$parentCategoryId = Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory()->getId();
$cat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($parentCategoryId);
$subcats = $cat->getChildren();

?>

<!--// Get 1 Level sub category of Parent category.-->
<?php 
foreach(explode(',',$subcats) as $subCatid)
              {
                $_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($subCatid);
  if($_category->getIsActive()) {
    //echo '<ul><a href="'.$_category->getURL().'" title="View the products for the "'.$_category->getName().'" category">'.$_category->getName().'</a>';
  // echo '</ul>';
  }
}

?>

<!--// Get 2 Level sub category of Parent sub category-->
<?php 
foreach(explode(',',$subcats) as $subCatid)
{
  $_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($subCatid);
  if($_category->getIsActive()) {
    echo '<ul><li class="subcat-title">'.$_category->getName().'</li>';
    $sub_cat = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_category->getId());
    $sub_subcats = $sub_cat->getChildren();
    foreach(explode(',',$sub_subcats) as $sub_subCatid)
    {
          $_sub_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($sub_subCatid);
          if($_sub_category->getIsActive()) {
              echo '<li class="sub_cat"><a href="'.$_sub_category->getURL().'" category">'.$_sub_category->getName().'</a></li>';

 }
     }
     echo '</ul>';
  }
}
?>

then styled with some CSS of course

Magento subcat & sub-sub cat on view.phtml

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