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A270632
Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 182", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
1, 6, 14, 34, 66, 102, 154, 214, 322, 442, 570, 702, 898, 1138, 1346, 1658, 2018, 2398, 2810, 3218, 3722, 4250, 4802, 5442, 6174, 6882, 7678, 8562, 9530, 10442, 11498, 12734, 13970, 15242, 16762, 18222, 19898, 21538, 23370, 25118, 27090, 29314, 31442, 33486
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
REFERENCES
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=182; 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}];
on=Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
Table[Total[Part[on, Range[1, i]]], {i, 1, Length[on]}] (* Sum at each stage *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A270630.
Sequence in context: A271772 A270024 A271198 * A272219 A271089 A271695
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Mar 20 2016
STATUS
approved