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A271129
Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 291", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 5, 9, 32, 9, 101, 41, 164, 33, 316, 61, 433, 53, 600, 141, 825, 76, 1097, 160, 1285, 92, 1629, 268, 1809, 273, 2325, 252, 2589, 264, 2889, 421, 3349, 396, 3809, 440, 4209, 393, 4793, 665, 5124, 553, 5992, 649, 6321, 629, 6968, 985, 7580, 773, 8345, 1081
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=291; 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: A049602 A350280 A119031 * A271152 A271164 A266206
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Mar 31 2016
STATUS
approved