OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Number of Y-toothpicks added at n-th stage to the Y-toothpick structure of A160120.
For a simpler version, see A151710. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 18 2012
LINKS
JungHwan Min, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..5000
David Applegate, Omar E. Pol and N. J. A. Sloane, The Toothpick Sequence and Other Sequences from Cellular Automata, Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 206 (2010), 157-191. [There is a typo in Theorem 6: (13) should read u(n) = 4.3^(wt(n-1)-1) for n >= 2.]
David Applegate, The movie version
Omar E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms of A139251, A160121, A147582 (Overlapping figures) [Omar E. Pol, Nov 02 2009]
N. J. A. Sloane, Catalog of Toothpick and Cellular Automata Sequences in the OEIS
EXAMPLE
Contribution from Omar E. Pol, Jun 18 2009: (Start)
May be written as a triangle:
1,
3,
3,
9,
3,9,
9,21,9,9,
9,21,15,21,27,51,27,9,
9,21,15,21,27,51,33,21,27,51,51,57,69,117,81,21,
9,21,15,21,27,51,33,21,27,51,51,57,69,117,87,33,27,51,51,57,75,129,117,75,69,117,135,141,171,279,231,69;
Rows converge to A161326.
(End)
Contribution from Omar E. Pol, Dec 18 2012: (Start):
Also this sequence may be written as another triangle (according to the structure of triangle A151710):
1;
3;
3, 9;
3, 9,9,21;
9, 9,9,21,15,21,27,51;
27, 9,9,21,15,21,27,51,33,21,27,51,51,57,69,117;
81,21,9,21,15,21,27,51,33,21,27,51,51,57,69,117,87,33,27,51,51,57,75,129,117,75,69,117,135,141,171,279;
(End)
MATHEMATICA
YTPFunc[lis_, step_] := With[{out = Extract[lis, {{1, 2}, {2, 1}, {-1, -1}}], in = lis[[2, 2]]}, Which[in == 1, 3, in == 0 && Count[out, 1] >= 2, 2, in == 0 && Count[out, 1] == 1, 1, True, in]]; A160121[n_] := Count[CellularAutomaton[{YTPFunc, {}, {1, 1}}, {{{1}}, 0}, {{{n}}}], 1, 2] (* JungHwan Min, Jan 28 2016 *)
A160121[n_] := Count[CellularAutomaton[{13390417258775213635414055181254541831894674613399006361662885886563211940509571858857491972104491013971547937418035084866785430974106432144737472376143620, 4, {{-1, 0}, {0, -1}, {0, 0}, {1, 1}}}, {{{1}}, 0}, {{{n}}}], 1, 2] (* JungHwan Min, Jan 28 2016 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol, May 02 2009
EXTENSIONS
More terms from David Applegate, Jun 14 2009
STATUS
approved