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A271252
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Partial sums of the number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 318", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
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1, 6, 18, 39, 76, 116, 184, 257, 361, 473, 649, 793, 1013, 1241, 1553, 1849, 2229, 2545, 3021, 3461, 4105, 4557, 5213, 5862, 6750, 7338, 8194, 9090, 10262, 11138, 12254, 13346, 14822, 15870, 17190, 18602, 20562, 21850, 23566, 25362, 27618, 29286, 31302
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OFFSET
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0,2
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COMMENTS
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Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
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REFERENCES
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S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
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MATHEMATICA
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CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=318; 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[Total[Part[on, Range[1, i]]], {i, 1, Length[on]}] (* Sum at each stage *)
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy
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AUTHOR
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STATUS
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approved
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