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   1 .\" Manpage for conway.
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   3 .TH man 8 "13 June 2019" "1.0" "conway manual page"
   4 .SH NAME
   5 conway \- A command line Conway's Game of Life simulator
   6 .SH SYNOPSIS
   7 .B conway
   8 [\fI-B\fR birth rule]
   9 [\fI-S\fR survival rule]
  10 [\fI-A\fR alive color]
  11 [\fI-D\fR dead color]
  12 .SH DESCRIPTION
  13 \fBconway\fR is yet another Conway's Game of Life simulator for the terminal,
  14 written in pure C with no external libraries.
  15 
  16 .SH OPTIONS
  17 .B \-B color
  18 Set the birth rules for the simulation (default: "3")
  19 
  20 .B \-S color
  21 Set the survival rules for the simulation (default: "23")
  22 
  23 .B \-A color
  24 Set the hex RGB color of alive cells (3 or 6 hex digits).
  25 
  26 .B \-D color
  27 Set the hex RGB color of dead cells (3 or 6 hex digits).
  28 
  29 .SH RULESETS
  30 The default Conway's Game of Life ruleset is: a dead cell will come to life if
  31 it has exactly 3 living neighbors, and a living cell will survive if it has 2
  32 or 3 living neighbors. This ruleset can be changed with the \fB-B\fR and
  33 \fB-S\fR flags. See \fIhttp://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/rullex_life.html\fR for
  34 some interesting rulesets.
  35 
  36 .SH EXAMPLES
  37 .TP
  38 .B
  39 conway -S 45678 -B 3
  40 A coral-like ruleset.
  41 
  42 .TP
  43 .B
  44 conway -A FB0 -D 226
  45 A yellow-on-blue color scheme.
  46 
  47 .SH AUTHOR
  48 Bruce Hill (bruce@bruce-hill.com)