A271095 Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 278", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 5, 8, 20, 16, 44, 32, 88, 44, 132, 60, 196, 89, 257, 100, 332, 165, 425, 160, 512, 249, 637, 232, 720, 345, 925, 332, 996, 465, 1233, 428, 1276, 560, 1512, 556, 1656, 656, 1864, 697, 2053, 804, 2288, 824, 2452, 981, 2773, 1008, 3028, 1024, 3044, 1284

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

Robert Price, Diagrams of the first 20 stages.

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=278; 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 *)

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A197539 A034453 A269715 * A194266 A169703 A270091

Adjacent sequences: A271092 A271093 A271094 * A271096 A271097 A271098

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, Mar 30 2016

Status

approved