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A273686
First differences of number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 841", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1
3, 13, 20, 24, 36, 27, 53, 51, 81, 28, 72, 83, 121, 15, 125, 107, 185, 3, 129, 171, 217, -13, 153, 211, 209, 111, 181, 223, 309, -49, 277, 295, 301, 79, 197, 299, 377, -1, 261, 259, 345, 247, 221, 347, 345, 139, 321, 579, 321, 179, 241, 479, 645, -61, 377
OFFSET
0,1
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=841; 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[on[[i+1]]-on[[i]], {i, 1, Length[on]-1}] (* Difference at each stage *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A273683.
Sequence in context: A271924 A354427 A178712 * A215567 A214519 A099502
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 27 2016
STATUS
approved