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A278601
Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the origin to the right edge, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 54", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 27, 9, 123, 97, 59, 649, 1467, 2209, 5115, 12617, 1019, 673, 42363, 89929, 164347, 360609, 547835, 1605705, 463099, 10529953, 31704955, 3805257, 303355, 38491297, 82903035, 1020414281, 35967995, 241853089, 3239525755, 119580489, 20676039163
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=54; 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}];
Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]][[i]], Range[i, 2*i-1]], 2], {i, 1, stages-1}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Nov 23 2016
STATUS
approved