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A271464
First differences of number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 377", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
3, 5, 23, -15, 87, -75, 151, -119, 251, -239, 387, -339, 531, -515, 723, -691, 907, -815, 1047, -1015, 1355, -1307, 1639, -1631, 1951, -1787, 2091, -2043, 2527, -2523, 3027, -2931, 3235, -3023, 3539, -3603, 4135, -4039, 4643, -4583, 5147, -5011, 5563, -5399
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=377; 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. A271461.
Sequence in context: A270180 A270793 A270209 * A088121 A144103 A270155
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 08 2016
STATUS
approved