A287197 Decimal representation of the diagonal from the corner to the origin of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 259", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 3, 1, 12, 1, 60, 1, 252, 1, 1020, 1, 4092, 1, 16380, 1, 65532, 1, 262140, 1, 1048572, 1, 4194300, 1, 16777212, 1, 67108860, 1, 268435452, 1, 1073741820, 1, 4294967292, 1, 17179869180, 1, 68719476732, 1, 274877906940, 1, 1099511627772, 1, 4398046511100, 1

Offset

0,2

Comments

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

Appears to differ from A277799 only at a(1). - R. J. Mathar, May 25 2017

References

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

Links

Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126

Robert Price, Diagrams of 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

Wolfram Research, Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs

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 = 259; 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

Cf. A287194, A287196, A287199.

Sequence in context: A365035 A232460 A337205 * A118020 A178619 A124572

Adjacent sequences: A287194 A287195 A287196 * A287198 A287199 A287200

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Robert Price, May 21 2017

Status

approved