A272769 - OEIS

%I #38 Feb 16 2025 08:33:34

%S 1,4,17,28,61,89,121,160,233,277,357,417,489,533,625,664,845,925,1061,

%T 1253,1325,1453,1557,1637,1877,2057,2193,2281,2453,2581,2761,2824,

%U 3213,3405,3709,3921,4141,4357,4453,4649,4893,5269,5441,5793,6061,6241,6505

%N Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 561", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

%C Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.

%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A272769/b272769.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128</a>

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A272769/a272769.tmp.txt">Diagrams of the first 20 stages</a>

%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01168">On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata</a>, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>

%H S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>

%t CAStep[rule_,a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&,ListConvolve[{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}},a,2],{2}];

%t code=561; stages=128;

%t rule=IntegerDigits[code,2,10];

%t g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)

%t a=PadLeft[{{1}},{g,g},0,Floor[{g,g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)

%t ca=a;

%t ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule,ca],{n,1,stages+1}];

%t PrependTo[ca,a];

%t (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)

%t k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;

%t ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]],Range[k+1-n,k-1+n]],{j,k+1-n,k-1+n}],{n,1,k}];

%t Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)

%K nonn,easy,changed

%O 0,2

%A _Robert Price_, May 11 2016