Talk:Cellular Automata/Examples on Rule 110

Comment on presentation of Rule 110
The information presented is dense. There is not enough explanatory English text. One would need to know a lot about CA in advance in order to make sense of the page? Михал Орела http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:MihalOrela 14:05, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Garden of Eden regular expression correct?
The shortest sequence I can generate with the garden of eden regular expression 0*1(00*1+1(1+00)*010)*1(1+00)*011(0+1)* is 11011

11011 is not a garden of eden state as 1010011 is it's parent.

Also I cannot seem to generate 01010, which does appear to be a garden of eden state as stated, with the regular expression.

Perhaps I am reading the symbols wrong, I am interpreting them with the same meaning they have in POSIX regexes. even if I interpret the plus symbol as a union, I can get 11011 and not 01010. It just seems incorrect to me.

If no one can explain where this regex comes from someone should delete it. Also a citation would be nice, then we could actually verify these things from an authoritative source.

For all I know that could be a regex of garden of eden states for a different rule that got placed here by mistake.