A269814 Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 35", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 5, 5, 37, 9, 101, 21, 185, 29, 313, 41, 457, 69, 629, 101, 817, 117, 1073, 129, 1345, 157, 1641, 209, 1937, 261, 2285, 309, 2641, 381, 3029, 453, 3425, 485, 3937, 497, 4465, 525, 5017, 577, 5569, 629, 6169, 697, 6761, 805, 7369, 929, 7969, 1029, 8669

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

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128

Robert Price, Diagrams of the first 20 stages.

N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015

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 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata

Index to Elementary Cellular Automata

Mathematica

rule=35; 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 *)
Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A270897 A270325 A270930 * A270018 A269876 A139386

Adjacent sequences: A269811 A269812 A269813 * A269815 A269816 A269817

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, Mar 05 2016

Status

approved