This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.
%I A290966 #14 Oct 16 2017 02:12:01 %S A290966 1,1,3,3,6,6,9,9,12,12,15,15,19,19,23,23,27,27,31,31,35,35,40,40,45, %T A290966 45,50,50,55,55,60,60,65,65,70,70,75,75,80,80,85,85,90,90,95,95,100, %U A290966 100,105,105,110,110,116,116,122,122,129,129,135,135 %N A290966 The number of convex layers in an n X n grid of points. %C A290966 The convex layers of a point set are obtained by finding the convex hull, removing its vertices, and continuing recursively with the remaining points. %C A290966 As can be seen in the subsequence 122, 129, 129, 135, the nonzero differences of consecutive sequence values do not grow monotonically. %H A290966 S. Har-Peled and B. Lidicky, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3200">Peeling the grid</a>, arXiv:1302.3200 [cs.DM], 2013. %H A290966 S. Har-Peled and B. Lidicky, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/120892660">Peeling the Grid</a>, SIAM J. Discrete Math., Vol. 27, No. 2 (2013), 650-655. %F A290966 For every n, a(2n) = a(2n-1). %F A290966 As Har-Peled and Lidicky (2013) proved, this sequence grows proportionally to n^{4/3}. %e A290966 For n=3, the a(3)=3 convex layers of a 3 X 3 grid are (1) the four corner points, (2) the four side midpoints, and (3) the center point. %Y A290966 Cf. A293596. %K A290966 nonn %O A290966 1,3 %A A290966 _David Eppstein_, Aug 15 2017