Insight-Live User Group

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Insight-Live User Group

This is a working group dedicated to testing and sharing glaze research results on our group area of the Insight-Live Glaze Recipe Database. This is absolutely the best place to share your recipes with photos and notes. You can add notes and pictures to other people's recipes showing how your results vary from the originals, and from other people's work with the same glaze. Members are required to periodically contribute notes, pictures, or well documented new recipes to the database.

Videos are available to orient new users with using the database and the user interface, and a text based help system is available

With the online glaze recipe database, members can upload recipes and pictures, search the databases for recipes, append recipes with new notes, and create printable batch mix sheets from recipes. Now members can copy an existing recipe and modify it while comparing the chemistry of both versions.   

This group is the cone6pots portal to Insight-Live. We accept anyone with cone6pots network membership, who agrees to publish photos and/or notes of their results with glaze recipes.. To gain  access to our group's Insight-Live database, you must first join the C6P network, and then this group. Your login information will be generated and sent to you, normally within a day or two.

Database access is a benefit brought to you by supporting members of the cone6pots network.

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Click the button below to login to Insight-Live. When logging in to the group recipe database, type in your user ID, not your email address (which you can use for a different individual account login). If you forget your user ID or password, contact George Lewter and he will send you a new temporary ID/password.

 

Members: 17
Latest Activity: Dec 28, 2019

User Videos for Insight-Live

Tony Hanson has made some excellent user videos for Insight-Live at http://insight-live.com/insight/videos/index.php. If you watch the first couple of them you can begin to appreciate the power of working with glaze chemistry and Insight-Live to tweak your glazes to correct problems and defects.

Specific topics he covers:

A Broken Glaze Meets Insight-Live and a Magic Material (Jan 2013)

Use the calculation mode of Insight-live to make material substitutions for troublesome materials to fix problems like blistering, pinholing, settling and poor slurry and drying properties. YoutubeMP4

How to Use a Lithium Frit in Insight-live (Jan 2013)

Use the calculation mode of Insight-live and non-unity to replace lithium carbonate with a frit. Youtube

Materials and Calculation (Jan 2013)

A tour of the materials management features of Insight-live. MP4

Importing Other File Formats (Oct 2012)

How to import recipe and material data from a wide range of formats. FlashMP4M4V

Importing From Generic CSV Spreadsheet (Feb 2013)

You can import data from a sheet having recipe rows and material columns. Youtube

Using Recipe Libraries to transfer recipes to desktop Insight (Mar 2013)

You can export hundreds, even thousands of recipes in a recipe library file. Youtube

Discussion Forum

Should We Stay or Should We Go Now

Started by George Lewter. Last reply by Marina Reijsmeijer (Kleierij) Dec 28, 2019. 16 Replies

Our Insight-live glaze database is not used by many members. I just deleted all members who have not signed in or viewed any recipes since January of 2017. That leaves us with 17 ''active" members.…Continue

Insight expired

Started by Tom Humphries. Last reply by Tom Humphries Oct 23, 2018. 2 Replies

Insight live says my account has expired. Does this mean I've been booted off the group for some reason? :(

Finding the perfect clear

Started by Donna Kat. Last reply by Donna Kat Sep 2, 2018. 7 Replies

Has anyone worked with Tony Hansen's G1214W Clear? I had thought I had found the perfect clear for our studio when I found this glaze. It did not craze on Standard clays. It was crystal clear and it…Continue

My next development project

Started by Arnold Rowntree. Last reply by Jay Decker Mar 23, 2018. 4 Replies

I was searching google images for 'alkaline glazes' and saw this at VVarges page:…Continue

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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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