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.TH "Pbmlife User Manual" 1 "21 February 1991" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a PBM image

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpbmlife\fP
[\fIpbmfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpbmlife\fP reads a PBM image as input, applies the rules
of Life to it for one generation, and produces a PBM image as output.
.PP
A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a
black pixel as an empty space.

.UN options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
There are no command line options defined specifically
for \fBpbmlife\fP, but it recognizes the options common to all
programs based on libnetpbm (See 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
 Common Options
.UE
\&.)

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "pbm" (1)\c
\&

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source.  The master documentation is at
.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmlife.html
.PP