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A272828
Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 603", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 5, 13, 33, 49, 93, 105, 181, 189, 309, 289, 461, 445, 605, 569, 841, 785, 1081, 953, 1381, 1277, 1625, 1433, 1957, 1729, 2269, 1993, 2689, 2385, 3105, 2705, 3533, 3113, 3917, 3385, 4561, 4053, 4997, 4209, 5669, 5117, 6061, 5153, 6793, 6021, 7309, 6173
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=603; 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: A146924 A342032 A272161 * A370754 A308812 A321124
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 17 2016
STATUS
approved