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A282298 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 451", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

%I A282298 #8 Feb 16 2025 08:33:41
%S A282298 1,1,7,0,31,0,127,0,511,0,2047,0,8191,0,32671,0,130567,240,522651,240,
%T A282298 2088963,4088,8386575,4080,33546247,15608,134184975,64744,536739883,
%U A282298 261770,2140668331,1047516,8557953027,12841934,34258944009,62537,136935507307
%N A282298 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 451", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C A282298 Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D A282298 S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H A282298 Robert Price, <a href="/A282298/b282298.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>
%H A282298 Robert Price, <a href="/A282298/a282298.tmp.txt">Diagrams of first 20 stages</a>
%H A282298 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 A282298 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>
%H A282298 S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>
%H A282298 Wolfram Research, <a href="http://atlas.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs</a>
%H A282298 <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>
%H A282298 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>
%H A282298 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>
%t A282298 CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];
%t A282298 code = 451; stages = 128;
%t A282298 rule = IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
%t A282298 g = 2 * stages + 1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
%t A282298 a = PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0,Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
%t A282298 ca = a;
%t A282298 ca = Table[ca = CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages + 1}];
%t A282298 PrependTo[ca, a];
%t A282298 (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
%t A282298 k = (Length[ca[[1]]] + 1)/2;
%t A282298 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 A282298 Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]] [[i]], Range[1, i]], 2], {i, 1, stages - 1}]
%Y A282298 Cf. A282295, A282297, A282299.
%K A282298 nonn,easy
%O A282298 0,3
%A A282298 _Robert Price_, Feb 11 2017