A272746 Number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 529", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 4, 13, 28, 49, 77, 96, 149, 180, 257, 256, 373, 388, 513, 476, 709, 692, 857, 828, 1129, 1032, 1301, 1224, 1605, 1584, 1789, 1812, 2149, 2132, 2445, 2368, 2861, 2684, 3121, 3100, 3461, 3544, 3785, 3848, 4341, 4284, 4817, 4772, 5237, 5292, 5697, 5784, 6085

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.

Links

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128

Robert Price, Diagrams of the first 20 stages

N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton

S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science

Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata

Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata

Index to Elementary Cellular Automata

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=529; 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}];
Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A307272 A056107 A155433 * A273557 A272790 A273564

Adjacent sequences: A272743 A272744 A272745 * A272747 A272748 A272749

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 05 2016

Status

approved