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A281279 Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 347", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

%I A281279 #8 Feb 16 2025 08:33:39
%S A281279 1,1,3,10,5,55,12,233,23,988,55,4008,83,16244,201,65155,380,261573,
%T A281279 883,1047194,1285,4192115,3208,16771111,6116,67099657,14323,268412948,
%U A281279 22525,1073708039,50160,4294875663,91360,17179730463,211408,68719103095,361224
%N A281279 Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 347", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C A281279 Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D A281279 S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H A281279 Robert Price, <a href="/A281279/b281279.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>
%H A281279 Robert Price, <a href="/A281279/a281279.tmp.txt">Diagrams of first 20 stages</a>
%H A281279 N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01168">On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata</a>, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015
%H A281279 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>
%H A281279 S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>
%H A281279 Wolfram Research, <a href="http://atlas.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs</a>
%H A281279 <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>
%H A281279 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>
%H A281279 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>
%t A281279 CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];
%t A281279 code = 347; stages = 128;
%t A281279 rule = IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
%t A281279 g = 2 * stages + 1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
%t A281279 a = PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0,Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
%t A281279 ca = a;
%t A281279 ca = Table[ca = CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages + 1}];
%t A281279 PrependTo[ca, a];
%t A281279 (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
%t A281279 k = (Length[ca[[1]]] + 1)/2;
%t A281279 ca = Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]] [[j]],Range[k + 1 - n, k - 1 + n]], {j, k + 1 - n, k - 1 + n}], {n, 1, k}];
%t A281279 Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]] [[i]], Range[1, i]], 2], {i, 1, stages - 1}]
%Y A281279 Cf. A281277, A281278, A281280.
%K A281279 nonn,easy
%O A281279 0,3
%A A281279 _Robert Price_, Jan 18 2017