A272743 Number of active (ON, black) cells at stage 2^n-1 of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 526", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

1, 5, 17, 69, 277, 1109, 4437, 17749, 70997, 283989, 1135957, 4543829, 18175317, 72701269, 290805077, 1163220309

Offset: 0

Author

Robert Price, May 05 2016

Keywords

• nonn
• more

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
• 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

Crossrefs

Cf. A272742.

Programs

Mathematica

CAStep[rule_,a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&,ListConvolve[{{0,2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}},a,2],{2}];
code=526; 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}];
on=Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[#1]]],ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
Part[on,2^Range[0,Log[2,stages]]] (* Extract relevant terms *)

Formula

Conjecture: a(n) = (13*4^(n-1) - 1)/3, n>1. - Lars Blomberg, Jul 08 2016

Conjectures from Colin Barker, Jul 08 2016: (Start)

a(n) = 5*a(n-1)-4*a(n-2) for n>4.

G.f.: (1-4*x^2+4*x^3) / ((1-x)*(1-4*x)).

(End)

Extensions

a(8)-a(15) from Lars Blomberg, Jul 08 2016