A284241 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 838", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 3, 5, 13, 17, 59, 81, 219, 257, 899, 1349, 3437, 4369, 15291, 20737, 56195, 65605, 229613, 344401, 877403, 1119297, 3915491, 5314901, 14395349, 16808833, 58754115, 88165093, 224623133, 286527785, 1002322927, 1360614465, 3685187299, 4302839125, 15043144177

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

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code = 838; 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[1, i]], 2], {i, 1, stages - 1}]

Crossrefs

Cf. A284239, A284240, A284242.

Sequence in context: A284143 A283912 A038185 * A284305 A306388 A131020

Adjacent sequences: A284238 A284239 A284240 * A284242 A284243 A284244

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, Mar 23 2017

Status

approved