A273746 Number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 918", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 5, 9, 25, 29, 53, 53, 97, 101, 133, 157, 225, 213, 269, 269, 405, 393, 429, 497, 617, 569, 645, 685, 873, 829, 897, 941, 1173, 1129, 1193, 1249, 1501, 1461, 1577, 1661, 1781, 1837, 2077, 2017, 2265, 2325, 2361, 2465, 2685, 2725, 2981, 2933, 3189, 3265

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=918; 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: A166701 A116520 A273561 * A234277 A269918 A354775

Adjacent sequences: A273743 A273744 A273745 * A273747 A273748 A273749

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 30 2016

Status

approved