This is a swing based implementation of Conway's Game of Life.

$ make 

$ make run

Alternativ approach

$ java  -jar GameOfLife.jar

$ java  -jar GameOfLife.jar <initial population in precent>

$ java  -jar GameOfLife.jar 10

At the beginning (zeroth generation) each cell has a 10 percent chance to be alive. The default value is 20 percent.