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%I A287136 #7 May 20 2017 21:50:41
%S A287136 1,2,2,4,4,8,8,112,144,352,416,1984,1600,7552,7808,25344,18688,101888,
%T A287136 55808,408576,1008640,1587200,1599488,6352896,6393856,26959872,
%U A287136 28811264,107462656,115228672,429752320,461275136,1743978496,1818820608,6858604544,7417233408
%N A287136 Decimal representation of the diagonal from the origin to the corner of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 246", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
%C A287136 Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
%D A287136 S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
%H A287136 Robert Price, <a href="/A287136/b287136.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126</a>
%H A287136 Robert Price, <a href="/A287136/a287136.tmp.txt">Diagrams of first 20 stages</a>
%H A287136 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 A287136 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>
%H A287136 S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</a>
%H A287136 Wolfram Research, <a href="http://atlas.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs</a>
%H A287136 <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>
%H A287136 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_2D_5-Neighbor_Cellular_Automata">Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata</a>
%H A287136 <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>
%t A287136 CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10 - #]] &, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0},{2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2],{2}];
%t A287136 code = 246; stages = 128;
%t A287136 rule = IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
%t A287136 g = 2 * stages + 1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
%t A287136 a = PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0,Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
%t A287136 ca = a;
%t A287136 ca = Table[ca = CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages + 1}];
%t A287136 PrependTo[ca, a];
%t A287136 (* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
%t A287136 k = (Length[ca[[1]]] + 1)/2;
%t A287136 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 A287136 Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]] [[i]], Range[i, 2 * i - 1]], 10], {i, 1, stages - 1}]
%Y A287136 Cf. A287133, A287134, A287135.
%K A287136 nonn,easy
%O A287136 0,2
%A A287136 _Robert Price_, May 20 2017

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