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A272087
Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 422", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
1, 6, 10, 30, 39, 72, 89, 162, 187, 260, 301, 414, 463, 608, 681, 946, 1051, 1276, 1381, 1622, 1783, 2088, 2241, 2650, 2827, 3260, 3469, 3998, 4247, 4920, 5225, 6186, 6635, 7476, 7925, 8798, 9343, 10352, 10865, 11810, 12375, 13404, 14045, 15214, 15847, 17096
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=422; 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 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A272085.
Sequence in context: A271067 A271600 A271134 * A271261 A271412 A272278
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 19 2016
STATUS
approved