Good book for trigonometry in regards to 3D Development using JavaScript?

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- brainwavecreations
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Hey folks!

Just curious to see if anyone knows of any good educational books for learning trigonometry within JavaScript? I've been watching a bunch of video tutorials by FoozleCC on YouTube. And, he is doing a lot of interesting things in 3D using Construct 3. It definitely relies heavily on being knowledgeable in trig.

I've found a few online resources for 3D Math as it relates to JavaScript. But, sometimes it's nice to have a physical book for reference as well. Or even just a decent book on trigonometry for 3D design in general would be awesome.

Thanks in advance to anyone who has any recommendations :)
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- Mikal
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amazon.com/Mathematics-Programming-Computer-Graphics-Third/dp/1435458869
The above is not JS, but the concepts are good and you can use the info in JS by leveraging the below.

Also to use this info, an important JS library to be aware of is:

glmatrix.net/docs/index.html - you can use this in C3 scripting by including the library as a module, etc.
(C3 internally uses an older version of glmatrix for 2D and 3D rendering/camera.)
- brainwavecreations
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Thanks for your response Mikal! I've gone ahead and added that title to my Amazon Wishlist for my next order :)
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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I've referred to 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development while developing parts of Construct. Like most resources it tries to be language agnostic and focus on the maths, as that is applicable to any technology. And it looks like the whole thing is available free online now as well!
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I've referred to 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development while developing parts of Construct. Like most resources it tries to be language agnostic and focus on the maths, as that is applicable to any technology. And it looks like the whole thing is available free online now as well!

Awesome. Thanks for the resource Ashley! Coming directly from one of the guys who founded Scirra, I'll definitely be putting this one to work :)

It's nice that's it available for free as the online version as well! I've just made sure to Bookmark the website you linked us to. So I can reference it over and over. It seems like it may be all I need to learn, what I need to learn moving forward.

Really appreciate your response!