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It would be nice if the camera for the playing field could be panned around somehow to get a better view, and expand the possibility of grids larger than the screen.

In the multithreaded implementation, there is high possibility of thread collision when writing to the global web structure or the global root structure. this has happened on multiple occasions when running more than 1 thread. To fix this a mutex needs to be implemented to stop the WebWorkers from writing at the same time. Without further investigation I'm unsure whether the mutex should live at the web and all the workers need access to it, or rather if it needs to live inside the WebWorker class since those are the functions that are crashing.

the hud should consist of:

• a pause button in the upper left corner
• the node information in the upper right corner
  • the size_t identifier and node height
• the current update rate of the grid on display on the lower left corner
• buttons to control modes on the lower right corner
  • select button: select a rectangle region (to be used for saving patterns in future)
  • deselect button: ^transform to deselect all
  • paint button: left mouse draw piece, right mouse erase piece
  • search button: ^transform left mouse next grid, right mouse previous grid

Main Menu should consist of ttf font saying

Conways Game of Life

New Game

Exit

some ideas for the future include a pattern maker and painter, but that may just be involved into the gameplay mode.

This should be another step on top of freezing the grid. the pause menu should consist of:

• Conways Game of Life title at the top
• Main Menu
• Clear Web (this erases the data in the dictionary to clear out memory if needed)
  • it might be worth thinking about ways to trim the web
• Exit (directly exit the game)

The unique identifier for the gridweb should maintain its type as a size_t; however, it would be in the best interest of storage to create a reversible way to retreive the coordinates of the grid to recreate the grid from just its identifier alone. This would mitigate all requirements for vector<pair<int, int> > startCoords;. Futhermore this would allow patterns to be easily stored in a small writable data structure, many patterns could be stored in a single file while being easily readable by the program.