Available nod and dither patterns for the NIRSpec IFS mode. Colored vertical bars mark the slices used for the primary dither points, which are indicated in the top-left corner of each panel, illustrating the spatial sampling of a spaxel. The two-point and four-point nod patterns are mostly used to move compact sources within the aperture for in-field background subtraction. The four-point dither pattern maintains the same spaxel sampling as the four-point nod but is optimized for extended sources that can only tolerate small movements within the aperture. The 60-point cycling patterns allow the user to select an arbitrary subset out of 60 predefined points, with the first nine positions (large symbols) optimally sampling the spaxel. The optimal choice of pattern scale (large, medium, or small) depends on the size of the source.