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A272732
Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 517", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
1, 9, 29, 66, 126, 210, 339, 488, 712, 949, 1278, 1622, 2095, 2587, 3211, 3816, 4660, 5476, 6445, 7469, 8757, 10006, 11411, 12956, 14756, 16556, 18493, 20589, 23109, 25542, 28138, 30886, 34051, 37215, 40475, 44040, 48056, 52037, 56041, 60545, 65414, 70202
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=517; 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. A272730.
Sequence in context: A146869 A129397 A136392 * A272740 A162263 A272784
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 05 2016
STATUS
approved