A281284 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 350", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 3, 3, 11, 27, 11, 59, 203, 123, 267, 1467, 4043, 123, 4363, 21947, 62667, 14203, 102667, 316859, 939211, 227195, 1642763, 5076411, 15013067, 3635067, 26284299, 81229243, 240194763, 58161019, 420548875, 1299674555, 3843101899, 930576251, 6728782091

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..126

Robert Price, Diagrams of 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

Wolfram Research, Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs

Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata

Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata

Index to Elementary Cellular Automata

Formula

Conjectures from Chai Wah Wu, May 05 2024: (Start)

a(n) = 17*a(n-4) - 16*a(n-8) for n > 23.

G.f.: (49152*x^23 + 40960*x^22 - 32768*x^21 - 12288*x^20 - 61440*x^19 - 32768*x^18 + 32768*x^17 + 14080*x^16 - 2816*x^15 - 2048*x^14 - 1536*x^12 + 768*x^11 + 512*x^10 + 128*x^9 - 320*x^8 + 16*x^7 + 8*x^6 - 40*x^5 + 10*x^4 + 11*x^3 + 3*x^2 + 3*x + 1)/(16*x^8 - 17*x^4 + 1). (End)

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code = 350; 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

Cf. A281281, A281282, A281283.

Sequence in context: A343465 A289883 A280564 * A281639 A281101 A341601

Adjacent sequences: A281281 A281282 A281283 * A281285 A281286 A281287

Keyword

nonn,easy,changed

Author

Robert Price, Jan 18 2017

Status

approved