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A351783 Number of grains of sand required to be added to one cell at the origin in an initially empty and infinite 3D cubic grid for the 3D sandpile model such that the distance from the origin of the furthest nonempty cell along the axes is n.

0, 6, 36, 162, 516, 1230, 2430, 3756, 5862, 9036, 12822, 16710, 22182, 28758, 36144, 45444, 54966, 66270, 78870, 93834, 109866, 127260, 146412, 169698, 192366, 218214, 244752, 273480, 307224, 341430, 380988, 420558, 463350, 510024, 558090, 611088, 664494, 723060, 784014, 844134, 921486

Offset: 0

Scott R. Shannon and Zach J. Shannon, Feb 19 2022

nonn

The 3D sandpile model follows the same rules as the 2D model except that cells topple and transfer one grain of sand to their six nearest neighbors when the cell contains 6 or more grains. Cells containing 0 to 5 grains are stable.

Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld, Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987), 381-384.
Laura Florescu, Daniela Morar, David Perkinson, Nicholas Salter, and Tianyuan Xu, Sandpiles and Dominos, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 22(1), 2015.
Luis David Garcia-Puente and Brady Haran, Sandpiles, Numberphile video, YouTube.com, Jan. 13, 2017.
Zach J. Shannon, Image of the occupied cells for a(40)=921486. For this and the below image, red=1, green=2, blue=3, violet=4, orange=5 grains per cell. The axes are in the middle of the red squares.
Zach J. Shannon, Image of the occupied cells for a(40)=921486, bisected along the y-z plane.

Cf. A351784, A351379, A307652, A259013, A180230.

A351784 Number of cells containing one or more grains of sand after n grains of sand are added to one cell in an initially empty and infinite 3D cubic grid for the 3D sandpile model.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 24, 25, 25

Offset: 0

Scott R. Shannon and Zach J. Shannon, Feb 19 2022

nonn

Scott R. Shannon, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld, Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987), 381-384.
Laura Florescu, Daniela Morar, David Perkinson, Nicholas Salter, and Tianyuan Xu, Sandpiles and Dominos, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 22(1), 2015.
Luis David Garcia-Puente and Brady Haran, Sandpiles, Numberphile video, YouTube.com, Jan. 13, 2017.
Zach J. Shannon, Image of the occupied cells for a(96)=44, bisected along the y-z plane. The colors are red=1 (24 total cells), blue=3 (14 total cells), violet=5 (6 total cells) grains per cell.

Cf. A351783, A351379, A349990 (2D version), A307652, A259013, A180230.

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A351783 Number of grains of sand required to be added to one cell at the origin in an initially empty and infinite 3D cubic grid for the 3D sandpile model such that the distance from the origin of the furthest nonempty cell along the axes is n.

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