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%I #9 Apr 16 2016 16:10:18
%S 1,5,8,20,20,48,37,77,45,137,84,180,120,268,136,316,133,409,225,525,
%T 268,644,276,732,344,884,420,928,485,1117,496,1188,556,1460,645,1633,
%U 724,1792,800,1912,844,2164,968,2328,1129,2573,1120,2752,1181,3061,1328
%N Number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 406", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A271885/b271885.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128</a>
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A271885/a271885.tmp.txt">Diagrams of the first 20 stages</a>
%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01168">On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata</a>, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015
%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>
%H S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>
%H <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>
%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>
%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>
%t CAStep[rule_,a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&,ListConvolve[{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}},a,2],{2}];
%t code=406; stages=128;
%t rule=IntegerDigits[code,2,10];
%t g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
%t a=PadLeft[{{1}},{g,g},0,Floor[{g,g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
%t ca=a;
%t ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule,ca],{n,1,stages+1}];
%t PrependTo[ca,a];
%t (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
%t k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;
%t ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]],Range[k+1-n,k-1+n]],{j,k+1-n,k-1+n}],{n,1,k}];
%t Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
%K nonn,easy
%O 0,2
%A _Robert Price_, Apr 16 2016
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