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A290528 Decimal representation of the diagonal from the origin to the corner of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 833", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood. 4
1, 1, 5, 15, 3, 63, 7, 255, 15, 1023, 31, 4095, 63, 16383, 127, 65535, 255, 262143, 511, 1048575, 1023, 4194303, 2047, 16777215, 4095, 67108863, 8191, 268435455, 16383, 1073741823, 32767, 4294967295, 65535, 17179869183, 131071, 68719476735, 262143 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,3
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
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
FORMULA
Conjectures from Colin Barker, Aug 05 2017: (Start)
G.f.: (1 - 2*x^2 + 10*x^3 - 28*x^4 + 48*x^6 - 32*x^7) / ((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x)*(1 + 2*x)*(1 - 2*x^2)).
a(n) = 2^(n/2) - 1 for n>2 and even.
a(n) = 2^(n+1) - 1 for n>2 and odd.
a(n) = a(n-1) + 6*a(n-2) - 6*a(n-3) - 8*a(n-4) + 8*a(n-5) for n>4.
(End)
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code = 833; 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[i, 2 * i - 1]], 10], {i, 1, stages - 1}]
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A082269 A367030 A107776 * A161202 A154353 A077348
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Aug 04 2017
STATUS
approved

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