A273742 First differences of number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 878", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

4, 4, 12, 8, 12, 20, 4, 28, 16, 32, 4, 28, 44, 36, 84, 52, -44, 20, 48, 72, -28, 68, 84, 28, 84, 36, 60, 140, 20, 132, 76, 132, -44, 168, -24, 44, -4, 52, 124, 12, 60, -4, 196, 100, 12, 4, 388, -36, 4, 116, 108, 92, 116, 116, 60, 356, 236, -4, 148, 428, 380

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.

Links

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..127

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=878; 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. A273739.

Sequence in context: A272990 A273645 A169648 * A169710 A269629 A241496

Adjacent sequences: A273739 A273740 A273741 * A273743 A273744 A273745

Keyword

sign,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 28 2016

Status

approved