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A272227
Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 443", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
1, 6, 19, 59, 84, 181, 253, 442, 519, 843, 956, 1413, 1597, 2190, 2527, 3327, 3632, 4764, 5061, 6442, 6850, 8475, 9059, 10992, 11701, 13989, 14774, 17434, 18467, 21428, 22744, 26165, 27537, 31474, 32883, 37319, 38844, 43809, 45429, 50982, 52787, 58871, 60828
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=443; 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. A272225.
Sequence in context: A027044 A057571 A238055 * A272587 A125069 A080926
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 22 2016
STATUS
approved