game-of-life

Java implementation of Conway's Game of Life.

How to build

To build the project, execute the following Maven command:

mvn clean package

This will create a runnable JAR suffixed with SUPER in target directory (eg. target/GameOfLife-1.0-SUPER.jar) that contains all dependencies.

How to execute

To execute the JAR from command line:

java -jar GameOfLife-1.0-SUPER.jar --sleep=1000 --iter=5 --file=C:\\Blinker.txt

Command line arguments

##Required

--file=FILE
Specify the starting state of the grid in a file. 
1s and 0s denote a live and a dead cell respectively.
eg.
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0

##Optional

--sleep=X
   Number of milliseconds between consecutive ticks.
   (default value: 6000)
--iter=X
   The number of iterations that will be executed.
   (default value: infinite)