Yes, there is a thread by nearly the same name, but this is a separate yet similar topic.  It'll make sense.  

Something that has bugged me for a while but I've never thought about consciously until the other day regarding a solution is the fact that it's often times hard to tell which way culture is travelling.  I'm not suggesting making it move faster as SageWon is.  I'm suggesting perhaps the addition of a little arrow graphic or something to indicate the direction it's travelling on the phase lane.  For instance, you have phase lane A:

O=========O

That's rather difficult to tell which way the culture is going.  Perhaps add some simple little arrows.  Below, let's represent red culture beating blue:

O===>=====O

Now, let's represent them being even (or very very close)

O===>|<====O

This would be IMO a lot better than the current system because rather than having to zoom closely and wait a few seconds to watch the color shift a few pixels, you could just quickly at a glance tell which culture is winning.