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A270465
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Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 173", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
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4
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1, 8, 4, 40, 17, 112, 20, 180, 61, 324, 41, 436, 116, 644, 73, 820, 193, 1084, 120, 1308, 280, 1628, 148, 1932, 360, 2280, 236, 2620, 512, 3040, 276, 3452, 616, 3988, 428, 4200, 952, 4836, 480, 5568, 912, 6112, 604, 6592, 1220, 7248, 656, 8144, 1232, 8676
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OFFSET
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0,2
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COMMENTS
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Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
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REFERENCES
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S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
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LINKS
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MATHEMATICA
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CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=173; 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}];
Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy
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AUTHOR
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STATUS
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approved
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