A272792 Partial sums of the number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 537", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 5, 18, 46, 95, 176, 264, 437, 630, 883, 1131, 1528, 1936, 2469, 2981, 3722, 4471, 5368, 6225, 7377, 8553, 9878, 11167, 12888, 14437, 16397, 18222, 20419, 22639, 25212, 27528, 30521, 33457, 36750, 39798, 43579, 47235, 51487, 55456, 60189, 64626, 69783

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

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=537; 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. A272790.

Sequence in context: A081435 A272748 A273559 * A273566 A217866 A256539

Adjacent sequences: A272789 A272790 A272791 * A272793 A272794 A272795

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 06 2016

Status

approved