A325954 - OEIS

A325954

Langton's ant on a three-dimensional grid: number of blue cells on the grid after n moves of the ant.

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8, 9, 10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 9

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OFFSET

0,19

COMMENTS

The ant starts on a completely white grid.

Order of operations: turn 90 degrees, change cell color, move forward one unit.

The rules governing the movement of the ant and the change of cell colors are shown in the following table:

Cell color at | Direction of | Color the cell is

start of iteration | 90-degree turn | changed to

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white | right | black

black | left | blue