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<H1>pbmlife</H1>
Updated: 21 February 1991
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<H2>NAME</H2>
pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a portable bitmap
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>pbmlife</B>
[<I>pbmfile</I>]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<p><b>pbmlife</b> reads a portable bitmap as input, applies the rules
of Life to it for one generation, and produces a PBM image as output.
<P>A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a
black pixel as an empty space.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="pbm.html">pbm</A>
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
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