A273707 Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 873", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 4, 21, 33, 68, 105, 144, 193, 277, 329, 409, 433, 568, 625, 760, 817, 1013, 1105, 1277, 1369, 1553, 1661, 1841, 1993, 2205, 2297, 2589, 2705, 3025, 3125, 3381, 3553, 3881, 4105, 4389, 4593, 4933, 5053, 5385, 5681, 6009, 6257, 6585, 6889, 7245, 7573, 7841

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=873; 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: A273299 A306285 A273699 * A364679 A204557 A161444

Adjacent sequences: A273704 A273705 A273706 * A273708 A273709 A273710

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 28 2016

Status

approved