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A272846 Number of active (ON,black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 553", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood. 3
1, 4, 17, 28, 57, 84, 125, 140, 193, 260, 325, 380, 457, 532, 613, 620, 689, 868, 949, 1116, 1209, 1396, 1493, 1612, 1705, 1956, 2053, 2236, 2337, 2548, 2629, 2604, 2577, 3108, 3093, 3612, 3609, 4148, 4149, 4620, 4617, 5220, 5221, 5756, 5761, 6324, 6309 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
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.
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=553; 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: A319970 A272834 A273573 * A273610 A272769 A273646
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 07 2016
STATUS
approved

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