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Hey Guys

Been ages since I touched anything maths and 3d based and well the dust has crept in. So am in need of a trigonometry refreshers. Does anyone have any suggestions as to a good primer/refresher I can tackle to get my brain back into it.

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Thanks, will poke about there. Looked at my 3d primer and realised that's great, but how do I figure out cos etc again
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do you mean actually calculate cos?
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Yep, that's what I meant, sorry was prior to my morning coffee :)
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I'd keep them as black boxes if I were you ;)

but that triganometry page on wikipedia does give you the formula
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I used "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development" by Dunn and Parberry. Its a good book that covers pretty much everything you need.
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I have that self same book, needed a step back from it :D
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If you want to repeat some school-math you can have a look at http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/.
For 3D related topics I'd suggest you to have a look at their sites about: Geometry, Trigonomitry, Vectors and Matrices.
They also have some more-or-less good learning games for each topic.