A269512 - OEIS

%I #16 Jul 26 2024 21:16:31

%S 4,3,16,-7,36,-21,64,-47,100,-77,144,-119,196,-165,256,-223,324,-285,

%T 400,-359,484,-437,576,-527,676,-621,784,-727,900,-837,1024,-959,1156,

%U -1085,1296,-1223,1444,-1365,1600,-1519,1764,-1677,1936,-1847,2116,-2021

%N First differences of number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 342", 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="/A269512/b269512.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..127</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 <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_, Apr 03 2016: (Start)

%F a(n) = -a(n-1)+a(n-2)+a(n-3)+a(n-4)+a(n-5)-a(n-6)-a(n-7) for n>6.

%F G.f.: (4+7*x+15*x^2+2*x^3+6*x^4-x^5-x^6) / ((1-x)^2*(1+x)^3*(1+x^2)).

%F (End)

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

%t code=342; 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 on=Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)

%t Table[on[[i+1]]-on[[i]],{i,1,Length[on]-1}] (* Difference at each stage *)

%Y Cf. A264797.

%K sign,easy

%O 0,1

%A _Robert Price_, Apr 03 2016