Search: id:A147562 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A147562 %S A147562 0,1,5,9,21,25,37,49,85,89,101,113,149,161,197,233,341,345,357,369,405, 417, %T A147562 453,489,597,609,645,681,789,825,933,1041,1365,1369,1381,1393,1429,1441, %U A147562 1477,1513,1621,1633,1669,1705,1813,1849,1957,2065,2389,2401,2437,2473 %N A147562 Number of "ON" cells at nth stage in simple 2-dimensional cellular automaton (see Comments for precise definition). %C A147562 Studied by Holladay and Ulam circa 1960. See Fig. 1 and Example 1 of the Ulam reference. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 02 2009. %C A147562 Singmaster calls this the Ulam-Warburton CA. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 05 2009 %C A147562 On the infinite square grid, start with all cells OFF. %C A147562 Turn a single cell to the ON state. %C A147562 At each subsequent step, each cell with exactly one neighbor ON is turned ON, and everything that is already ON remains ON. %C A147562 Here "neighbor" refers to the four adjacent cells in the X and Y directions. %C A147562 Note that "neighbor" could equally well refer to the four adjacent cells in the diagonal directions, since the graph formed by Z^2 with "one-step rook" adjacencies is isomorphic to Z^2 with "one-step bishop" adjacencies. %D A147562 D. Singmaster, On the cellular automaton of Ulam and Warburton, unpublished manuscript, 2003. %D A147562 S. Ulam, On some mathematical problems connected with patterns of growth of figures, pp. 215-224 of R. E. Bellman, ed., Mathematical Problems in the Biological Sciences, Proc. Sympos. Applied Math., Vol. 14, Amer. Math. Soc., 1962. %H A147562 David Applegate, The movie version %H A147562 Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata %H A147562 O. E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms (One-step rook) [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Nov 02 2009] %H A147562 O. E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms (One-step bishop) [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Nov 02 2009] %H A147562 O. E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms (Overlapping squares) [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Nov 02 2009] %H A147562 O. E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms (Overlapping X-toothpicks) [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Nov 04 2009] %H A147562 O. E. Pol, Illustration of initial terms of A139250, A160120, A147562(Overlapping figures) [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Nov 04 2009] %F A147562 For n>0, a(n) = 1 + 4*Sum_{k=1..n} 3^(wt(k-1)-1), where wt() = A000120(). %e A147562 If we label the generations of cells turned ON by consecutive numbers we get a rosetta cell pattern (1 should be added to these numbers to match the new offset): %e A147562 ................3 %e A147562 ...............323 %e A147562 ..............3.1.3 %e A147562 .............3210123 %e A147562 ..............3.1.3 %e A147562 ...............323 %e A147562 ................3 %e A147562 In the first generation, only the central "0" is ON, a(1)=1. In the next generation, we turn ON four "1", leading to a(2)=a(1)+4=5. In the third generation, four "2" are turned ON, a(3)=a(2)+4=9. In the fourth generation, each of the four wings allows three 3's to be turned ON, a(4)=a(3)+4*3=21. %p A147562 # [x,y] coordinates of cells on %p A147562 Lse := [[0,0]] ; %p A147562 # enclosing rectangle of the cells on (that is, minima and maxima in Lse) %p A147562 xmin := 0 ; %p A147562 xmax := 0 ; %p A147562 ymin := 0 ; %p A147562 ymax := 0 ; %p A147562 # count neighbors of x,y which are on; return 0 if [x,y] is in L %p A147562 cntnei := proc(x,y,L) %p A147562 local a,p,xpt,ypt; %p A147562 a := 0 ; %p A147562 if not [x,y] in L then %p A147562 for p in Lse do %p A147562 xpt := op(1,p) ; %p A147562 ypt := op(2,p) ; %p A147562 if ( abs(xpt-x) = 1 and ypt=y ) or ( x=xpt and abs(ypt-y) = 1) then %p A147562 a := a+1 ; %p A147562 fi; %p A147562 od: %p A147562 fi: %p A147562 RETURN(a) ; %p A147562 end: %p A147562 # loop over generations/steps %p A147562 for stp from 1 to 10 do %p A147562 Lnew := [] ; %p A147562 for x from xmin-1 to xmax+1 do %p A147562 for y from ymin-1 to ymax+1 do %p A147562 if cntnei(x,y,Lse) = 1 then %p A147562 Lnew := [op(Lnew),[x,y]] ; %p A147562 fi; %p A147562 od: %p A147562 od: %p A147562 for p in Lnew do %p A147562 xpt := op(1,p) ; %p A147562 ypt := op(2,p) ; %p A147562 xmin := min(xmin,xpt) ; %p A147562 xmax := max(xmax,xpt) ; %p A147562 ymin := min(ymin,ypt) ; %p A147562 ymax := max(ymax,ypt) ; %p A147562 od: %p A147562 Lse := [op(Lse),op(Lnew)] ; %p A147562 print(nops(Lse)) ; %t A147562 Map[Function[Apply[Plus,Flatten[ #1]]],CellularAutomaton[{686,{2,{{0, 2,0},{2,1,2},{0,2,0}}},{1,1}},{{{1}},0},200]] (Nadia Heninger and N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 11 2009) %Y A147562 Cf. A000120, A139250, A147582 (number turned on at n-th step), A147610. %Y A147562 Cf. A130665, A151920, A160120, A160410, A160414. [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Nov 02 2009] %Y A147562 Sequence in context: A092387 A160720 A147552 this_sequence A162795 A147407 A146867 %Y A147562 Adjacent sequences: A147559 A147560 A147561 this_sequence A147563 A147564 A147565 %K A147562 nonn,nice,new %O A147562 0,3 %A A147562 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), based on emails from Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Richard Mathar and David Wilson, Apr 29 2009 %E A147562 Offset and initial terms changed by N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 07 2009 Search completed in 0.002 seconds