Java - The game of life

Swing application which consists of a simulator of The Game of Life. This game is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

More information here.

Controls
Left click: Draw cell
Right click: Erase cell

In the ball mode, one end of the vivarium connects with the other end.

You can run the program with Eclipse. To run the program without Eclipse: java -jar the-game-of-life.jar