Garden of Eden States


	Colored columns represent bits of unreachable "Garden of Eden" states for the selected elementary cellular automaton rule. The other columns represent bits of states that result from at least one initial condition.


	Contributed by: Michael Schreiber
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Contributed by: Michael Schreiber

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