A simulation of Conway's Game of Life that runs on the console.
In order to build the corresponding artifacts, you must install Java 1.7 and Maven 3.0.
In the root directory life, execute the following command:
$ mvn package
This produces two identical assemblies in life/target that contain everything needed to run the program.
life/
+ target/
+ life-1.0-bin.tar.gz
+ life-1.0-bin.zip
Unpacking either assembly produces the following output:
life-1.0/
+ bin/
+ life
+ lib/
+ ...
Run bin/life --help for instructions.
The following runs a simulation forever with the dimension of the universe defined by the console and a wait cycle between generations of 1 second.
$ life -x $COLUMNS -y $LINES
Add --fancy to simulate when new cells are born and old cells die.
$ life -x $COLUMNS -y $LINES --fancy
Speed up the simulation by shortening the wait cycle to 100 milliseconds before the next generation is computed.
$ life ... --delay 100
Specify the number of initial living cells.
$ life ... --start 500
Limit the simulation to 1000 generations.
$ life ... --gen 1000