A273295 Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 629", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 8, 20, 45, 61, 112, 132, 201, 225, 348, 384, 485, 485, 680, 676, 893, 901, 1153, 1113, 1385, 1305, 1724, 1576, 1993, 1825, 2404, 2240, 2737, 2521, 3208, 2980, 3669, 3317, 4076, 3728, 4693, 4237, 5120, 4660, 5805, 5413, 6352, 5764, 6933, 6261, 7673, 6929

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

Robert Price, Diagrams of the first 20 stages

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=629; 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: A338471 A086169 A273241 * A273266 A273304 A169878

Adjacent sequences: A273292 A273293 A273294 * A273296 A273297 A273298

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 19 2016

Status

approved