.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.
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