.TH pbmlife 1 "21 February 1991" .IX pbmlife .SH NAME pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a portable bitmap .SH SYNOPSIS .B pbmlife .RI [ pbmfile ] .SH DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Applies the rules of Life to it for one generation, .IX Life and produces a portable bitmap as output. .PP A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a black pixel as an empty space. .SH "SEE ALSO" pbm(5) .SH AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its .\" documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided .\" that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting .\" documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or .\" implied warranty.