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A285840 Decimal representation of the diagonal from the origin to the corner of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 113", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood. 4
1, 1, 6, 7, 20, 15, 104, 95, 48, 1023, 928, 3199, 3904, 15103, 384, 65535, 7424, 254975, 113152, 219135, 1903616, 1048575, 59392, 16719871, 10866688, 58376191, 58744832, 148897791, 65486848, 993591295, 430866432, 3822452735, 2026045440, 15837691903 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,3
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
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
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code = 113; 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]], 10], {i, 1, stages - 1}]
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A288587 A286963 A287789 * A285819 A287760 A305675
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 27 2017
STATUS
approved

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