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A308590 Langton's ant on a Penrose rhomb tiling: number of black cells after n moves of the ant.

%I A308590 #14 Jul 23 2019 08:45:37
%S A308590 0,1,2,3,4,5,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,7,6,7,8,9,8,9,10,11,10,9,8,7,8,7,8,9,
%T A308590 10,9,10,11,12,11,12,13,14,13,14,15,16,15,16,17,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,
%U A308590 11,12,11,12,13,14,13,14,13,14,15,14,13,12,13,12,13,14
%N A308590 Langton's ant on a Penrose rhomb tiling: number of black cells after n moves of the ant.
%C A308590 The ant lives on a centrally symmetric Penrose rhomb tiling with a "Sun" patch (S configuration, cf. A242935) at the center and starts on one of the thick rhombs of that patch, looking towards one of the outward edges of that tile. On a white rhomb, turn to the next edge of that cell in clockwise direction, flip the color of the rhomb, then move forward one unit. On a black rhomb, turn to the next edge of that cell in counterclockwise direction, flip the color of the rhomb, then move forward one unit.
%C A308590 In contrast to the corresponding sequences for Langton's ant on periodic tilings, like the square tiling (A255938) or a hexagonal tiling (A269757), this sequence is most likely not unique. A Penrose tiling lacks translational symmetry, meaning any two finite regions in the tiling that are identical are surrounded by different patches of tiles when examining a large enough region of the surrounding tiles. Therefore I suspect that, unless the trajectory of the ant is bounded to stay inside a finite region of the tiling, the trajectories of any two ants placed at different starting points on the tiling will diverge at some point.
%H A308590 Felix Fröhlich, <a href="/A308590/a308590.pdf">Illustration of iterations 0-72 of the ant</a>
%H A308590 Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant">Langton's ant</a>
%H A308590 Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling">Penrose tiling</a>
%e A308590 See illustration in links.
%Y A308590 Cf. A255938, A269757, A325953, A325954, A325955.
%K A308590 nonn
%O A308590 0,3
%A A308590 _Felix Fröhlich_, Jun 09 2019