A273848 Number of active (ON, black) cells at stage 2^n-1 of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 969", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 4, 45, 225, 961, 3969, 16129, 65025, 261121, 1046529, 4190209, 16769025, 67092481, 268402689, 1073676289, 4294836225

Offset

0,2

Comments

Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.

Conjecture: Rule 985 also generates this sequence. - Lars Blomberg, Jul 25 2016

References

S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..15.

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

Formula

Conjecture: a(n) = 4*4^n - 4*2^n + 1, n>2. - Lars Blomberg, Jul 25 2016

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=969; 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 *)
Part[on, 2^Range[0, Log[2, stages]]] (* Extract relevant terms *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A273847.

Sequence in context: A132998 A120075 A273832 * A123650 A371003 A122910

Adjacent sequences: A273845 A273846 A273847 * A273849 A273850 A273851

Keyword

nonn,more

Author

Robert Price, Jun 01 2016

Extensions

a(8)-a(15) from Lars Blomberg, Jul 25 2016

Status

approved