pbmlife(1)

pbmlife1

Apply conway's rules of life to a pbm image

Usage

pbmlife [pbmfile]

Overview

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
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

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

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.0–11
  2. 12–13
  3. Arch

Author

Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

From netpbm 10.86.51-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.