.TL Pbmlife User Manual .SH 1 pbmlife .LP Updated: 21 February 1991 .br Table Of Contents .SH 2 NAME .LP pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a portable bitmap .SH 2 SYNOPSIS .LP \fBpbmlife\fR [\fIpbmfile\fR] .SH 2 DESCRIPTION .LP .LP This program is part of Netpbm. .LP \fBpbmlife\fR reads a portable bitmap as input, applies the rules of Life to it for one generation, and produces a PBM image as output. .LP A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a black pixel as an empty space. .SH 2 SEE ALSO .LP pbm .SH 2 AUTHOR .LP Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. .br \l'5i' .SH 2 Table Of Contents .LP .IP \(bu NAME .IP \(bu SYNOPSIS .IP \(bu DESCRIPTION .IP \(bu SEE ALSO .IP \(bu AUTHOR .LP