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A272993
Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 569", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
1, 5, 22, 50, 111, 204, 337, 486, 699, 996, 1349, 1762, 2259, 2836, 3521, 4186, 4967, 5996, 7089, 8334, 9715, 11188, 12889, 14646, 16575, 18764, 21045, 23462, 26095, 28836, 31777, 34742, 37895, 41544, 45301, 49478, 53855, 58408, 63385, 68498, 73875, 79568
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=569; 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 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A272991.
Sequence in context: A273612 A272937 A273648 * A273581 A049452 A273075
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 12 2016
STATUS
approved