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A272457
Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 481", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
1, 5, 18, 46, 79, 163, 232, 404, 521, 801, 954, 1382, 1607, 2199, 2480, 3268, 3633, 4625, 5070, 6298, 6839, 8287, 8972, 10764, 11573, 13713, 14570, 16958, 17871, 20507, 21532, 24636, 25829, 29289, 30690, 34634, 36123, 40435, 42064, 46880, 48701, 53989, 56086
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=481; 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. A272455.
Sequence in context: A327842 A000339 A270944 * A340974 A081435 A272748
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 29 2016
STATUS
approved