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A271011
First differences of number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 246", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
4, 3, 16, 4, 20, -12, 72, -40, 64, 4, 88, -52, 104, 0, 68, -36, 188, -88, 140, 12, 92, -48, 256, -172, 344, -208, 320, -172, 284, -32, 208, -76, 340, -304, 444, -120, 300, -188, 316, 8, 344, -416, 552, -76, 392, -240, 540, -160, 328, -64, 244, -28, 304, -52
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
REFERENCES
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=246; stages=128;
rule=IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
a=PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0, Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
ca=a;
ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages+1}];
PrependTo[ca, a];
(* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;
ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]], Range[k+1-n, k-1+n]], {j, k+1-n, k-1+n}], {n, 1, k}];
on=Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
Table[on[[i+1]]-on[[i]], {i, 1, Length[on]-1}] (* Difference at each stage *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A271008.
Sequence in context: A010309 A169702 A272422 * A077215 A348061 A270908
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Mar 28 2016
STATUS
approved