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pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a portable bitmap

pbmlife [pbmfile]

Reads a portable bitmap as input. Applies the rules of Life to it for one generation, and produces a portable bitmap as output.

A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a black pixel as an empty space.

pbm(5)

Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

21 February 1991