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A272258
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Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 451", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
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1, 6, 15, 39, 60, 132, 177, 289, 382, 606, 723, 1043, 1216, 1680, 1885, 2413, 2706, 3558, 3783, 4883, 5028, 6528, 6897, 8293, 8902, 10674, 11271, 13271, 13932, 16344, 17133, 19525, 20558, 23594, 24439, 28084, 28769, 32817, 33974, 38242, 39427, 44339, 45584
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OFFSET
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0,2
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COMMENTS
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Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
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REFERENCES
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S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
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MATHEMATICA
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CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=451; 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 *)
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy
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AUTHOR
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STATUS
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approved
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