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Also, total number of cubic ON cells after n generations in a three-dimensional cellular automaton where A160239(n) gives the number of cubic ON cells in the n-th level of the structure starting from the top. An ON cell remains ON forever. The structure looks like an irregular stepped pyramid. - Omar E. Pol, Jan 27 2015

The increase in number of ON cells in A160239 in going from one step to the next.

a(n) = A160239(n+1) - A160239(n).

Consider a simple cellular automaton, a grid of binary cells c(i,j), where the next state of the grid is calculated by applying the following rule to each cell: c(i,j) = ( c(i+1,j-1) + c(i+1,j+1) + c(i-1,j-1) + c(i-1,j+1) ) mod 2 If we start with a single cell having the value 1 and all the others 0, then the aggregate values of the subsequent states of the grid will be the terms in this sequence. - Andras Erszegi (erszegi.andras(AT)chello.hu), Mar 31 2006. See link for initial states. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 12 2015

This is the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 033 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link). - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 25 2015

First differences of A116520. - Omar E. Pol, May 05 2010

This is the number of ON cells in a certain 2-D CA in which the neighborhood of a cell is defined by f, and in which a cell is ON iff there was an odd number of ON cells in the neighborhood at the previous generation.

This is the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 777 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link).

Run Length Transform of {A001045(k+2)^2} (or of A139818).

The Run Length Transform of a sequence {S(n), n>=0} is defined to be the sequence {T(n), n>=0} given by T(n) = Product_i S(i), where i runs through the lengths of runs of 1's in the binary expansion of n. E.g. 19 is 10011 in binary, which has two runs of 1's, of lengths 1 and 2. So T(19) = S(1)*S(2). T(0)=1 (the empty product).

The cells are the squares of the standard square grid.

Cells are either OFF or ON, once they are ON they stay ON forever.

Each cell has 8 neighbors, the cells that are a knight's move away.

We begin in generation 1 with a single ON cell.

A cell is turned ON at generation n+1 if it has exactly one ON neighbor at generation n.

(Since cells stay ON, an equivalent definition is that a cell is turned ON at generation n+1 if it has exactly one neighbor that has been turned ON at some earlier generation. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 19 2018)

This sequence has similarities with A151725: here we use knight moves, there we use king moves.

This is a knight's-move version of the Ulam-Warburton cellular automaton (see A147562). - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 21 2018

The structure has dihedral D_8 symmetry (quarter-turn rotations plus reflections, which generate the dihedral group D_8 of order 8), so A319019 is a multiple of 8 (compare A322050). - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 16 2018

From Omar E. Pol, Dec 16 2018: (Start)

For n >> 1 (for example: n = 257) the structure of this sequence is similar to the structure of both A194270 and of A220500, the D-toothpick cellular automata of the second kind and of the third kind respectively. The animations of both CAs are in the Applegate's movie version.

Also, the graph of A319018 is a bit similar to the graph of A245540, which is essentially a 45-degree-3D-wedge of A245542 (a pyramid) which is the partial sums of A160239 (Fredkin's replicator). See "Plot 2": A319018 vs. A245540. (End)

The conjecture that A322050(2^k+1)=1 also suggests a fractal geometry. Let P_k be the associated set of eight points. It appears that P_k may be written as the intersection of four fixed lines, y = +-2*x and x = +-2*y, with a circle, x^2 + y^2 = 5*4^k (see linked image "Log-Periodic Coloring"). - Bradley Klee, Dec 16 2018

In many of these toothpick or cellular automata sequences it is common to see graphs which look like some version of the famous blancmange curve (also known as the Takagi curve). I expect that is what we are seeing when we look at the graph of A322049, although we probably need to go a lot further out before the true shape becomes apparent. - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 17 2018

The graph of A322049 (related to first differences of this sequence) appears to have rather a self-similar structure which repeats at powers of 2, and more specifically at 2^10 = 1024. There is no central symmetry or continuity, which are characteristic properties of the blancmange curve. - M. F. Hasler, Dec 28 2018

The 8 points added in generation n = 2^k + 1 are P_k = 2^k*K where K = {(+-2, +-1), (+-1, +-2)} is the set of the initial 8 knight moves. So P_k is indeed the intersection of the rays of slope +-1/2 resp. +-2 and a circle of radius 2^k*sqrt(5). In the subsequent generation n = 2^k + 2, the new cells switched on are exactly the 7 "new" knight move neighbors of these 8 cells, (P_k + K) \ (2^k - 1)*K. The 8th neighbor, lying one knight move closer to the origin, has been switched on in generation 2^k, together with an octagonal "wall" consisting of every other cell on horizontal and vertical segments between these points (2^k - 1)*K, and all cells on the diagonal segments between these points, as well as 2 more diagonals just next to these (on the inner side) and shorter by 2 cells (so they are empty for k = 1). This yields 4*(2 + (2^k - 2)*(1+3)) new ON cells in generation 2^k, plus 8*(2^(k-1) - 2) more new ON cells on horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines 4 units closer to the origin for k > 2, and similar additional terms for k > 4 etc. - M. F. Hasler, Dec 28 2018

Other sequences defined by a recurrence of this class (see the Formula and Maple sections) include A245180, A245195, A048896, A245536, A038374.

This is the number of ON cells in a certain 2-D CA in which the neighborhood of a cell is defined by f, and in which a cell is ON iff there was an odd number of ON cells in the neighborhood at the previous generation.

The neighborhood of a cell consists of the six surrounding cells (but not the cell itself). A cell is ON at generation n iff an odd number of its neighbors were ON at the previous generation. We start with one ON cell.

This is the Run Length Transform of the sequence 1, 6, 24, 96, 384, 1536, 6144, 24576, ... (almost certainly A164908, or 1 followed by A002023).

It appears that this is also the sequence corresponding to the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 356 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link). - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 26 2015

The neighborhood of a cell consists of the cell itself together with its six surrounding cells. A cell is ON at generation n iff an odd number of its neighbors were ON at the previous generation. We start with one ON cell.

This is the Run Length Transform of the sequence 1,7,25,103,409,1639,26215,... (almost certainly A102900).

This appears to be the same as the number of ON cells in a certain 2-D CA on the square grid in which the neighborhood of a cell is defined by f = 1/(x*y)+1/x+1/x*y+1/y+x/y+x+x*y, and in which a cell is ON iff there was an odd number of ON cells in the neighborhood at the previous generation. Here is the neighborhood:

[X, 0, X]

[X, 0, X]

[X, X, X]

which contains a(1) = 7 ON cells.

This is the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 557 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link).

Furthermore, this is also the number of ON cells in the 2-D CA on the square grid in which the neighborhood of a cell is defined by f = 1/(x*y)+1/x+1/y+1+y+x+x*y, with the same rule. Here is the neighborhood:

[0, X, X]

[X, X, X]

[X, X, 0]

- N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 19 2015

This is the odd-rule cellular automaton defined by OddRule 376 (see Ekhad-Sloane-Zeilberger "Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid" link).

The partial sums are in A253767 in which the structure looks like an irregular stepped pyramid, apparently with a like-hexagonal base. - Omar E. Pol, Jan 29 2015