A267447 Number of OFF (white) cells in the n-th iteration of the "Rule 129" elementary cellular automaton starting with a single ON (black) cell.

0, 3, 4, 7, 4, 8, 8, 15, 4, 8, 8, 16, 8, 16, 16, 31, 4, 8, 8, 16, 8, 16, 16, 32, 8, 16, 16, 32, 16, 32, 32, 63, 4, 8, 8, 16, 8, 16, 16, 32, 8, 16, 16, 32, 16, 32, 32, 64, 8, 16, 16, 32, 16, 32, 32, 64, 16, 32, 32, 64, 32, 64, 64, 127, 4, 8, 8, 16, 8, 16, 16

Offset

0,2

References

S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 55.

Links

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton

S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science

Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata

Index to Elementary Cellular Automata

Formula

Conjecture: a(n) = A071051(n), n>0. - R. J. Mathar, Jan 17 2016

Mathematica

rule=129; rows=20; ca=CellularAutomaton[rule, {{1}, 0}, rows-1, {All, All}]; (* Start with single black cell *) catri=Table[Take[ca[[k]], {rows-k+1, rows+k-1}], {k, 1, rows}]; (* Truncated list of each row *) nbc=Table[Total[catri[[k]]], {k, 1, rows}]; (* Number of Black cells in stage n *) Table[Length[catri[[k]]]-nbc[[k]], {k, 1, rows}] (* Number of White cells in stage n *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A267417.

Sequence in context: A193967 A109823 A337124 * A071051 A212807 A163830

Adjacent sequences: A267444 A267445 A267446 * A267448 A267449 A267450

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, Jan 15 2016

Status

approved