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Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, or from the origin to the right edge, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 7", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
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%I #32 Jan 24 2017 20:39:48

%S 1,3,0,15,0,63,0,255,0,1023,0,4095,0,16383,0,65535,0,262143,0,1048575,

%T 0,4194303,0,16777215,0,67108863,0,268435455,0,1073741823,0,

%U 4294967295,0,17179869183,0,68719476735,0,274877906943,0,1099511627775,0,4398046511103,0

%N Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, or from the origin to the right edge, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 7", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

%C Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.

%C Essentially the same as A277929 and A277928. - _R. J. Mathar_, Nov 09 2016

%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A277936/b277936.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A277936/a277936.tmp.txt">Diagrams of the first 20 stages</a>

%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01168">On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata</a>, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>

%H S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>

%F Conjectures from _Colin Barker_, Nov 06 2016: (Start)

%F G.f.: (1+3*x-5*x^2+4*x^4) / ((1-x)*(1+x)*(1-2*x)*(1+2*x)).

%F a(n) = 5*a(n-2)-4*a(n-4) for n>4.

%F a(n) = (-1/2-(-2)^n+(-1)^n/2+2^n) for n>0. (End)

%p A277936:=n->(-1/2-(-2)^n+(-1)^n/2+2^n): 1,seq(A277936(n), n=1..80); # _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Jan 24 2017

%t CAStep[rule_,a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&,ListConvolve[{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}},a,2],{2}];

%t code=7; stages=128;

%t rule=IntegerDigits[code,2,10];

%t g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)

%t a=PadLeft[{{1}},{g,g},0,Floor[{g,g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)

%t ca=a;

%t ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule,ca],{n,1,stages+1}];

%t PrependTo[ca,a];

%t (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)

%t k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;

%t ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]],Range[k+1-n,k-1+n]],{j,k+1-n,k-1+n}],{n,1,k}];

%t Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]][[i]],Range[1,i]],2], {i,1,stages-1}]

%Y Cf. A277560.

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,2

%A _Robert Price_, Nov 05 2016