%I #10 Mar 13 2017 06:32:24
%S 1,0,5,14,30,62,126,254,510,1022,2046,4094,8190,16382,32766,65534,
%T 131070,262142,524286,1048574,2097150,4194302,8388606,16777214,
%U 33554430,67108862,134217726,268435454,536870910,1073741822,2147483646,4294967294,8589934590
%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 657", 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="/A283591/b283591.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>
%H Robert Price, <a href="/A283591/a283591.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_, Mar 13 2017: (Start)
%F G.f.: (1 - 3*x + 7*x^2 - x^3 - 2*x^4) / ((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x)).
%F a(n) = 2*(2^n - 1) for n>2.
%F a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 2*a(n-2) for n>4.
%F (End)
%t CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];
%t code = 657; 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. A283589, A283590, A283592.
%K nonn,easy
%O 0,3
%A _Robert Price_, Mar 11 2017