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Trigonometry for Flash: A Visual Reference
Posted by Will | Filed under Adobe Flash, Tutorials
Trigonometry is something any aspiring Flash developer should learn. It is the cornerstone of becoming better at manipulating graphics purely with code.
I am certainly not a math guru by any means. I often find myself having to flip through a book or dig through previous projects to find the formula for getting the angle of a vector or the distance between 2 points etc. So I have created an animated reference to trigonometry within the Flash coordinate space. This is very much for my own reference but I think others will find it useful.
As stated this is a reference, not a detailed tutorial. If you would like to learn more about trigonometry in Flash i highly recommend Actionscript 3.0 Animation by Keith Peters.
If I have missed something or there is a useful formula you think I should add leave me a comment below. Feel free to bookmark this page for future reference.
