%I #10 Jul 26 2024 21:16:31
%S 1,6,18,34,70,94,154,198,314,358,486,606,806,950,1210,1454,1750,2018,
%T 2386,2778,3166,3550,4042,4634,5198,5702,6458,7250,8006,8718,9610,
%U 10670,11506,12382,13534,14834,16058,17150,18462,20150,21546,22858,24642,26618
%N Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 30", 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="/A269755/b269755.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..300</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>
%t rule=30; stages=300;
%t ca=CellularAutomaton[{rule,{2,{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}}},{1,1}},{{{1}},0},stages]; (* Start with single black cell *)
%t on=Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
%t Table[Total[Part[on,Range[1,i]]],{i,1,Length[on]}] (* Sum at each stage *)
%Y Cf. A269753.
%K nonn,easy
%O 0,2
%A _Robert Price_, Mar 04 2016