A271125 Number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 289", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 4, 5, 32, 9, 92, 21, 164, 25, 288, 37, 420, 57, 572, 85, 732, 89, 984, 101, 1244, 121, 1520, 165, 1780, 169, 2124, 213, 2452, 217, 2848, 317, 3108, 321, 3616, 333, 4132, 353, 4664, 397, 5180, 401, 5776, 461, 6332, 481, 6928, 637, 7380, 593, 8140, 733

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

CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=289; 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}];
Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A270286 A271803 A269810 * A270014 A271160 A269872

Adjacent sequences: A271122 A271123 A271124 * A271126 A271127 A271128

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, Mar 31 2016

Status

approved