OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
REFERENCES
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168, 2015
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
MATHEMATICA
rule=622; stages=300; ca=CellularAutomaton[ {rule, {2, {{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}}, {1, 1}}, {{{1}}, 0}, stages]; (* Start with single black cell *) on=Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca]; (* Count ON cells at each stage *) Part[on, 2^Range[0, Log[2, stages]]]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Feb 29 2016
EXTENSIONS
a(9)-a(15) from Lars Blomberg, Jul 16 2016
STATUS
approved