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A271164
Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 307", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 5, 9, 32, 13, 104, 25, 192, 49, 316, 41, 440, 109, 624, 69, 856, 181, 1072, 185, 1340, 209, 1621, 248, 1941, 336, 2317, 288, 2601, 440, 3105, 373, 3501, 568, 3881, 668, 4321, 689, 4804, 705, 5476, 953, 5944, 829, 6588, 965, 7176, 1009, 7644, 1181, 8548
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.
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=307; 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: A119031 A271129 A271152 * A266206 A271397 A264099
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Mar 31 2016
STATUS
approved