%I #9 Jan 01 2017 14:34:16
%S 1,1,3,8,3,56,3,248,3,1016,3,4088,3,16376,3,65528,3,262136,3,1048568,
%T 3,4194296,3,16777208,3,67108856,3,268435448,3,1073741816,3,
%U 4294967288,3,17179869176,3,68719476728,3,274877906936,3,1099511627768,3,4398046511096,3
%N Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 259", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A280369/b280369.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A280369/a280369.tmp.txt">Diagrams of 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 Wolfram Research, <a href="http://atlas.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs</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_, Jan 01 2017: (Start)
%F a(n) = 3 for n>1 and even.
%F a(n) = 2^(n+1) - 8 for n>1 and odd.
%F a(n) = 5*a(n-2) - 4*a(n-4) for n>5.
%F G.f.: (1 + x - 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 - 8*x^4 + 20*x^5) / ((1 - x)*(1 + x)*(1 - 2*x)*(1 + 2*x)).
%F (End)
%t CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];
%t code = 259; 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. A280367, A280368, A280370.
%K nonn,easy
%O 0,3
%A _Robert Price_, Jan 01 2017