pbmlife(1) General Commands Manual pbmlife(1)NAME
pbmlife - apply Conway's rules of Life to a portable bitmap
SYNOPSIS
pbmlife [pbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
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.
SEE ALSO pbm(5)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
21 February 1991 pbmlife(1)
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pbmmask(1) General Commands Manual pbmmask(1)NAME
pbmmask - create a mask bitmap from a regular bitmap
SYNOPSIS
pbmmask [-expand] [pbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable bitmap as input. Creates a corresponding mask bitmap and writes it out.
The color to be interpreted as "background" is determined automatically. Regardless of which color is background, the mask will be white
where the background is and black where the figure is.
This lets you do a masked paste like this, for objects with a black background:
pbmmask obj > objmask
pnmpaste < dest -and objmask <x> <y> | pnmpaste -or obj <x> <y>
For objects with a white background, you can either invert them or add a step:
pbmmask obj > objmask
pnminvert objmask | pnmpaste -and obj 0 0 > blackback
pnmpaste < dest -and objmask <x> <y> | pnmpaste -or blackback <x> <y>
Note that this three-step version works for objects with black backgrounds too, if you don't care about the wasted time.
You can also use masks with graymaps and pixmaps, using the pnmarith tool. For instance:
ppmtopgm obj.ppm | pgmtopbm -threshold | pbmmask > objmask.pbm
pnmarith -multiply dest.ppm objmask.pbm > t1.ppm
pnminvert objmask.pbm | pnmarith -multiply obj.ppm - > t2.ppm
pnmarith -add t1.ppm t2.ppm
An interesting variation on this is to pipe the mask through the pnmsmooth script before using it. This makes the boundary between the two
images less sharp.
OPTIONS -expand
Expands the mask by one pixel out from the image. This is useful if you want a little white border around your image. (A better
solution might be to turn the pbmlife tool into a general cellular automaton tool...)
SEE ALSO ppmcolormask(1), pnmpaste(1), pnminvert(1), pbm(5), pnmarith(1), pnmsmooth(1)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.
08 August 1989 pbmmask(1)
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