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A272145
Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 433", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 4, 9, 36, 25, 88, 65, 180, 93, 272, 121, 420, 193, 564, 261, 796, 309, 1024, 369, 1212, 429, 1508, 557, 1808, 681, 2116, 729, 2364, 885, 2788, 1165, 3096, 1277, 3712, 1473, 4052, 1545, 4704, 1605, 5216, 1801, 5860, 2033, 6192, 2177, 6696, 2517, 7252, 2633
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=433; 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: A352002 A120073 A056894 * A272221 A334110 A117676
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Apr 21 2016
STATUS
approved