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A271598
Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 390", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 5, 4, 20, 9, 33, 13, 65, 20, 92, 45, 109, 45, 157, 57, 225, 81, 257, 53, 173, 109, 317, 129, 413, 188, 444, 188, 500, 232, 664, 308, 796, 344, 864, 216, 768, 296, 840, 392, 1032, 472, 1056, 524, 1220, 532, 1340, 696, 1704, 576, 1528, 708, 1756, 800, 2032
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=390; 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: A266707 A269695 A271065 * A271133 A272085 A271259
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 10 2016
STATUS
approved