A273248 Partial sums of the number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 617", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 5, 26, 55, 127, 215, 367, 519, 783, 1071, 1471, 1887, 2463, 3047, 3815, 4511, 5495, 6495, 7759, 9039, 10559, 12103, 13975, 15775, 17999, 20167, 22767, 25263, 28263, 31071, 34487, 37495, 41271, 44919, 49231, 53399, 58183, 62799, 68215, 73511, 79507, 85367

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

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..128

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

S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science

Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata

Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata

Index to Elementary Cellular Automata

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=617; 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. A273246.

Sequence in context: A049738 A273210 A273272 * A273301 A042883 A273701

Adjacent sequences: A273245 A273246 A273247 * A273249 A273250 A273251

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 18 2016

Status

approved