Pbmlife User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pbmlife User Manual(1)
NAME
pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a PBM image
SYNOPSIS
pbmlife [pbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pbmlife reads a PBM image as input, applies the rules of Life to it for
one generation, and produces a PBM image as output.
A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a black
pixel as an empty space.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for pbmlife, but
it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See
]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ .)
SEE ALSO
pbm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmlife.html
netpbm documentation 21 February 1991 Pbmlife User Manual(1)
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