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%I A282076 #7 Feb 06 2017 03:22:10
%S A282076 1,1,6,3,28,31,112,15,368,191,1856,1279,5888,3839,29696,28415,118016,
%T A282076 99327,474112,270335,1323008,544767,7385088,6307839,29786112,18661375,
%U A282076 88686592,46333951,410320896,430637055,1841561600,1519583231,7356350464,6057885695
%N A282076 Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the origin to the right edge, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 421", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C A282076 Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D A282076 S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H A282076 Robert Price, <a href="/A282076/b282076.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>
%H A282076 Robert Price, <a href="/A282076/a282076.tmp.txt">Diagrams of first 20 stages</a>
%H A282076 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 A282076 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>
%H A282076 S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>
%H A282076 Wolfram Research, <a href="http://atlas.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs</a>
%H A282076 <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>
%H A282076 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>
%H A282076 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>
%t A282076 CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];
%t A282076 code = 421; stages = 128;
%t A282076 rule = IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
%t A282076 g = 2 * stages + 1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
%t A282076 a = PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0,Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
%t A282076 ca = a;
%t A282076 ca = Table[ca = CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages + 1}];
%t A282076 PrependTo[ca, a];
%t A282076 (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
%t A282076 k = (Length[ca[[1]]] + 1)/2;
%t A282076 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 A282076 Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]] [[i]], Range[i, 2 * i - 1]], 2], {i ,1, stages - 1}]
%Y A282076 Cf. A282073, A282074, A282075.
%K A282076 nonn,easy
%O A282076 0,3
%A A282076 _Robert Price_, Feb 05 2017

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