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A273253
First differences of number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 619", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 36, 44, 60, 68, 68, 76, 84, 92, 76, 84, 124, 132, 132, 140, 148, 156, 140, 148, 180, 188, 172, 180, 188, 196, 132, 140, 252, 260, 260, 268, 276, 284, 268, 276, 308, 316, 300, 308, 316, 324, 260, 268, 372, 380, 364, 372, 380, 388, 324, 332
OFFSET
0,1
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=619; 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[on[[i+1]]-on[[i]], {i, 1, Length[on]-1}] (* Difference at each stage *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A273250.
Sequence in context: A369037 A141065 A190748 * A328304 A031065 A017113
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 18 2016
STATUS
approved