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Comment by Tony Hansen on May 21, 2013 at 12:47pm

I am in the process of importing 9000 recipes and hundreds of thousands of test data results into another group install. I will be working with this personally and improving Insight-live on desktop and portable devices in the next few months, this is going to lead to some big improvements in the features and user interface.

Comment by Kabe Burleson on May 19, 2013 at 5:12pm

Guilty as charged. Sorry George. I got caught up in some cone 10 stuff. I will take some pictures of that work and you can tell me if it is something that you want to add to insight. I did run some test tiles of some cone 6 glazes too but I haven't looked to see if they are in the database or not. I love digitalfire software. happy firing, Kabe

Comment by Kathy Ransom on May 18, 2013 at 6:15am

I would really hate to see us give up on the Insight database as I'm using it (not as much as I want to!) and find it very helpful.  I print copies of glazes I use regularly from insight and keep them in a binder in my studio where I can make further notes on them and add those notes back into insight.  I have been adding photos of glazes I use regularly but haven't done as much experimenting as I want to so glaze tests and documentation on new glazes are something I need to get working on.  I have been working with oil spot glazes, especially layering them and wonder if there is a way to add those results to insight?  I have shared results on this network, especially with Jeff Poulter and would really like a collaberative way to share glaze layering results.

Comment by George Lewter on May 15, 2013 at 10:10pm

Sorry gang, but the Insight-Live Users group is going to get leaner and meaner. 30 day cancellation notices just went out to 35 non-participants (people who never logged-in to our http://Insight-Live.com database, people who only logged-in once or twice and never searched for or posted anything, and people who have showed no activity for a year or more.) 

Get ready for there to be minimum requirements for you to remain a member of this group. We can discuss these requirements and reach some consensus, or I will simply impose what I think is needed. Those of you who are already contributing recipes, notes, and photos need not worry. Those who are not contributing yet, will need to acquire some knowledge about posting information on the database. You can ask your questions here, and we will try to answer them as quickly as possible.

If you have no intention of participating, then please quit now, so I don't have to hunt you down later. 

Wow! It seems that my patience is limited. 

Comment by George Lewter on March 9, 2013 at 2:02pm

Login problems for the group should first be directed to me, as I can edit and update both usernames and passwords. Kathy, I just sent you login info with a new password.  ;-)

Comment by Kabe Burleson on October 20, 2012 at 7:47pm

 Hi George. Me again. Little history here. All I did in college was cone 10 reduction, handbuilding and pots. When I graduated I switched to cone 6 elc and started doing tile.    A lot of my cone 6 glaze colors are just variations of a couple glaze bases.  You can strip all the colorents out of a glaze and check it's fit and then start adding color back in to it. Glazes with the same base blend together easily. For tile you might need a gradient of blue shades. Kind of like paints or a box of colors. It is a bit different than looking for that one great combination of glazes to put on a pot. So my approach I think is a little different than a potters. About a year ago I fell into the opportunity to have access to a cone ten reduction kiln through my work. So I drug out my old glaze book from college and have been making up test tiles of every glaze in the book, What good is a recipe if you can't see what it looks like? It could have up to 200 glazes in it I have never counted them, I was afraid it would scare me off. I just do three of each of the 11 color chooses and repeat the process. They are all cone 10, maybe a few raku. I test each tile on porcelain, my clay body and the schools claybody. I derived a system that makes them easy to store, access and transport. Handier than a shoebox or a wall hanging. Now that I have insight-live to use I am going to start with the first recipes and start making test tiles of what is in there.  I was about to start setting up the same system for all of my cone six recipes anyway.I can include these along with mine. I hope one of my Grand kids falls in love with clay so I can pass it down someone. I will try to compile a set of picture of what I have so far.  Thank you again for all your work. Happy firing.

Comment by George Lewter on August 14, 2012 at 8:47pm

Just made a $178.85 payment to Digital Fire for our group access to Insight-Live glaze recipe database.  Tony at Digital Fire provides the backbone to this great interactive database. It is up to us to flesh it out with: recipes, variations, pictures, notes on our results, techniques, and firing schedules. The more information we add, the more valuable the database becomes. 

Comment by Darthe Hues on April 20, 2012 at 5:46pm

I also have the Level 1 version of INSIGHT on my mac. I am learning so much by taking the Video lessons on the DigitalFire site. I keep a Notebook program open in another window and take very clear notes and also screen shots as I listen to the videos. I pause the video frequently to not miss any of the chemistry that Tony teaches. Thanks so much Tony.

Comment by Jeffery Dauvin on March 23, 2012 at 8:56am

Search by pictures , that is way cool !

interface colors look good , easy to read

now we need more pictures of glazes

Comment by Tony Hansen on March 6, 2012 at 8:21pm

I am getting close to releasing the variations feature, that is, the ability to define multiple sets additions to a base, each with its own title, codenumber, notes and pictures (each picture can also have its own title and notes). That means you will not have to enter separate recipes to show different colorants in a base, they will all be tobether. This has required quite a few changes and there will be a few wrinkles to iron out.

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