A269522 Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 622", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
1, 5, 9, 21, 25, 37, 57, 69, 89, 101, 121, 133, 169, 205, 257, 309, 361, 333, 377, 381, 385, 461, 465, 509, 601, 653, 697, 781, 889, 845, 1097, 1077, 1353, 1205, 1305, 1349, 1345, 1357, 1321, 1437, 1553, 1589, 1601, 1709, 1729, 1813, 1937, 2069, 2361, 2181
Offset: 0
References
- S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
Links
- Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..300
- Robert Price, Diagrams of first 20 stages
- N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168, 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
Programs
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Mathematica
rule=622; stages=300; ca=CellularAutomaton[ {rule,{2,{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}}},{1,1}}, {{{1}},0}, stages]; (* Start with single black cell *) Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
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