A271056 Partial sums of the number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 259", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 6, 11, 47, 52, 160, 165, 377, 382, 730, 735, 1251, 1256, 1972, 1977, 2925, 2930, 4142, 4147, 5655, 5660, 7496, 7501, 9697, 9702, 12290, 12295, 15307, 15312, 18780, 18785, 22741, 22746, 27222, 27227, 32255, 32260, 37872, 37877, 44105, 44110, 50986, 50991

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.

Links

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128

N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton

S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science

Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata

Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata

Index to Elementary Cellular Automata

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=259; 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. A271054.

Sequence in context: A216269 A242488 A094555 * A271255 A219878 A270292

Adjacent sequences: A271053 A271054 A271055 * A271057 A271058 A271059

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, Mar 29 2016

Status

approved