From 617fecd87ad36aea6c6e0ffb56213fb4dfe47504 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: informaniac <osakasan@abwesend.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 03:01:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] if absolutely nothing has changed, stop calculating more
 frames

---
 gameOfLife.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gameOfLife.py b/gameOfLife.py
index 44578f0..e6b96fb 100644
--- a/gameOfLife.py
+++ b/gameOfLife.py
@@ -89,4 +89,6 @@ for frame in range(500):
                 newRow.append(DEAD)
         gameBoardNextStep.append(newRow)
     gameBoard = gameBoardNextStep
+    if(gameBoard == lastGameBoard):
+        break
 writebml.writeBml(animation, '/home/pi/animations/gameOfLife.bml')