GameOfLife

This is a simple implementation of the Conway's Game of Life for the Terminal.

It's built with Gradle and requires Java 25.

Running it

./gradlew run

This runs with the default settings: a 9x16 grid, the PENTADECATHLON pattern, for 16 generations.

Parameters

All parameters are optional and can be overridden independently via Gradle properties:

Parameter	Description	Default
rows	Number of rows in the grid	9
columns	Number of columns in the grid	16
executions	Number of generations to simulate	16
pattern	Starting pattern (see below)	PENTADECATHLON

./gradlew run -Pexecutions=30 -Ppattern=SIMPLE_BLINKER

Available patterns (defined in PatternsEnum): PENTADECATHLON, SIMPLE_BLINKER, MULTI_BLINKERS.

Rendering

Display is handled through the GridRenderer interface, so how a generation is shown is decoupled from the grid's own simulation logic.
The default implementation, ConsoleRenderer, clears the terminal and redraws each generation using ANSI escape codes and colors.

Tests

./gradlew test

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Here is an animation of the fifteen states of a Pentadecathlon as displayed in the Terminal.