The dollar-sign ($) prefix has been removed from all symbols with the following exceptions:
Function Names Preceded by $
$COINCIDENT-P
$DIST-SQUARED
$DISTANCE
$MAGNITUDE
$MAGNITUDE-SQUARED
Many N·World 2.1 functions existed in two forms, with and without the suffix (which generally denotes a Nichimen Anti-Generic optimization). The following functions existed with and without the ! in N·World 2.1, but now exist in only one form
Anti-Generic Functions (! Suffixes)
GEN-LOCUS!
GEN-LOCOID!
GEN-POINT!
GEN-NODE!
GEN-WIRE-NODE!
GEN-VERTEX!
GEN-ARC-CENTER!
GEN-CROSSHAIR!
GEN-LOCATOR!
GEN-DIRECTION-VECTOR!
GEN-ORIENTATION-VECTOR!
GEN-PLANE!
GEN-CONSTRAINED-NODE!
GEN-WEIGHTED-CONSTRAINED-NODE!
GEN-CONTROL-POINT!
The following function existed in both forms in N·World 2.1, but their anti-generic counterparts have been removed from N·World 3.0:GEN-WEIGHTED-CONTROL-POINT!
For example, $DOT! and $DOT both existed in N·World 2.1, but only $DOT exists in N·World 3.0.
$DOT
GEN-FVECTOR
GEN-FQUAD
GEN-FTRIPLET
GEN-DOUBLET
GEN-FSINGLET
GEN-DUMMY-BODY
GEN-BODY-ON-FILE
$GEN-LOCUS
$GEN-POINT
$GEN-NODE
$GEN-WIRE-NODE!
$GEN-VERTEX
$GEN-ARC-CENTER
GEN-SEGMOID
GEN-LINE-SEGMENT
GEN-WINGED-SEGMENT
GEN-WIRE-SEGMENT
GEN-WINGED-ARC
GEN-WIRE-ARC
GEN-EDGE
$GEN-CONSTRAINED-NODE,
$GEN-WEIGHTED-CONSTRAINED-NODE
$GEN-CONTROL-POINT
GEN-WINGED-BEZIER-CURVE
GEN-WIRE-BEZIER-CURVE,
GEN-WINGED-BSPLINE-CURVE
GEN-WIRE-BSPLINE-CURVE,
GEN-FACE
GEN-WIRE
GEN-RING-BASE
GEN-POLYHEDRON,
GEN-OBJECT
GEN-BDI
GEN-INSTANCED-ELEMENT
GEN-INDEPENDENT-AXIS
GEN-NORMAL-AXIS
GEN-MIDPOINT-AXIS
GEN-SEGPOINT
GEN-WF-SEGMENT
GEN-WIRE-FRAME
GEN-CUBE-WIRE-FRAME
GEN-RECTANGULAR-MESH,
$MATRIX-CENTER
$SET-MATRIX-CENTER
The following functions have been deleted entirely, and are undefined in N·World 3.0:
Functions Which have been Deleted
MAKE-POLYHEDRON
MAKE-POINT!
MAKE-POINT
$MAKE-POINT
MULTIPLE-VALUE-LOCUS
$MULTIPLE-VALUE-LOCUS
MULTIPLE-VALUE-VECTOR
MULTIPLE-VALUE-PLANE
MULTIPLE-VALUE-TRIPLET
MULTIPLE-VALUE-QUADRUPLET
Table B.1 lists functions renamed for N·World 3.0:
Renamed Functions
The following functions have different argument lists in N·World 3.0 than they did for N·World 2.1:
Functions with Changed Argument Lists
View-Related Camera Methods
View-related methods of the camera (viewer-field) such as position, direction, view-angle, etc, now apply to a separate instance, the camera's viewer. Replace the camera in those args with
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