Given only an output list NestList[Mod[a #, m]&, x, n] parameters {a, m} that generate the list can be found for sufficiently large n from With[{ α = Apply[(#2 .

Often these can be thought of as one-way versions of axioms for operator systems (see page 1172 ), but applied only once per step (as /. does), rather than in all possible ways (as in a multiway system)—so that the evolution is just given by NestList[#/.rule &, init, t] .

Note that with more complicated initial conditions rule 225 often no longer yields a regular nested pattern, as shown on page 951 .

Starting with an ordinary base 2 digit sequence, one prepends a unary specification of its length, then a specification of that length specification, and so on: (Flatten[{Sign[-Range[1 - Length[#], 0]], #}] &)[ Map[Rest, IntegerDigits[Rest[Reverse[NestWhileList[ Floor[Log[2, #] &, n + 1, # > 1 &]]],2]]] (d) Binary-coded base 3. … Apply[Take, RealDigits[(N[#, N[Log[10, #] + 3]] &)[ n √ 5 /GoldenRatio 2 + 1/2], GoldenRatio]] The representations of all the first Fibonacci[n] - 1 numbers can be obtained from (the version in the main text has Rest[RotateLeft[Join[#, {0, 1}]]] & applied) Apply[Join, Map[Last, NestList[{# 〚 2 〛 ], Join[Map[Join[{1, 0}, Rest[#]] & , # 〚 2 〛 ], Map[Join[{1, 0}, #] &, # 〚 1 〛 ]]} &, {{}, {{1}}}, n-3]]]

One way to achieve this is to break the array into 2 n × 2 n blocks, then successively to fill in pixels in each block until the appropriate gray level is reached, as in the pictures below, in an order given for example by Nest[ Flatten2D[{{4 # + 0, 4 # + 2}, {4 # + 3, 4 # + 1}}] &, {{0}}, n] An alternative to this so-called ordered dither approach is the Floyd–Steinberg or error-diffusion method invented in 1976. … One simple way to do this appears to be to use nested patterns like the ones below.

LFSR cryptanalysis Given a sequence obtained from a length n LFSR (see page 975 ) Nest[Mod[Append[#, Take[#, -n] . vec], 2] &, list, t] the vector of taps vec can be deduced from LinearSolve[Table[Take[seq, {i, i + n - 1}], {i, n}], Take[seq, {n + 1, 2n}], Modulus  2] (An iterative algorithm in n taking about n 2 rather than n 3 steps was given by Elwyn Berlekamp and James Massey in 1968.)

If k is a rational number only a limited set of values appear, and the pattern has a nested form analogous to those shown on page 870 .

But by doing Nest[s, Range[52], 26] one ends up with a simple reversal of the original deck, as in the pictures below.

making the generated pattern nested.

In the case of the additive cellular automaton shown on the previous page its nested structure makes it possible to recognize regularities using many of the methods of perception and analysis discussed in this chapter .