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A277952
Binary representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 14", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 11, 110, 1110, 11010, 111010, 1101010, 11101010, 110101010, 1110101010, 11010101010, 111010101010, 1101010101010, 11101010101010, 110101010101010, 1110101010101010, 11010101010101010, 111010101010101010, 1101010101010101010, 11101010101010101010
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.
FORMULA
Conjectures from Colin Barker, Nov 06 2016: (Start)
G.f.: (1+10*x-x^2) / ((1-x)*(1-10*x)*(1+10*x)).
a(n) = a(n-1)+100*a(n-2)-100*a(n-3) for n>2.
a(n) = (-200-9*(-10)^n+2189*10^n)/1980. (End)
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=14; 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}];
Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]][[i]], Range[1, i]], 10], {i, 1, stages-1}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Nov 05 2016
STATUS
approved