%I #9 Feb 07 2017 03:20:44

%S 1,1,7,4,29,23,124,69,471,380,1989,1111,7548,6085,31831,17788,120773,

%T 97367,509308,284613,1932375,1557884,8148933,4553815,30918012,

%U 24926149,130382935,72861052,494688197,398818391,2086126972,1165776837,7915011159,6381094268

%N 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 427", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.

%C Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.

%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A282105/b282105.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A282105/a282105.tmp.txt">Diagrams of first 20 stages</a>

%H 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 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>

%H S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>

%H Wolfram Research, <a href="http://atlas.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>

%F Empirical g.f.: (1 + x + 7*x^2 + 3*x^3 + 12*x^4 + 8*x^6 - 8*x^7) / ((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x)*(1 + 2*x)*(1 + x + x^2)*(1 + 4*x^2)). - _Colin Barker_, Feb 06 2017

%t CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];

%t code = 427; stages = 128;

%t rule = IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];

%t g = 2 * stages + 1; (* Maximum size of grid *)

%t a = PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0,Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)

%t ca = a;

%t ca = Table[ca = CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages + 1}];

%t PrependTo[ca, a];

%t (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)

%t k = (Length[ca[[1]]] + 1)/2;

%t 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 Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]] [[i]], Range[1, i]], 2], {i, 1, stages - 1}]

%Y Cf. A282103, A282104, A282106.

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,3

%A _Robert Price_, Feb 06 2017