Electric Mid&Hi Fired Ceramics
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.
Glaze Recipe Formatting Standards.
To maximize the usefulness of the database some standardization is in order, particularly if you are entering recipes manually. It might be too much work to rework all of a batch of several hundred recipes (though that is what I'm doing with the 475 cone 6 recipes in the Sankey Glazes) before submitting them.
We may need to divide up our group recipes and do maintenance on them by editing them within the Insight-Live application.
The first and probably most important standard is in the Name Field.
It should be in the form of -- Original Name Cone Surface
unless one of the descriptive items is already in the title
Examples
C Harris Temoku Cone 6 Semi-gloss
Cone 6 Gloss Base
Black Matte Cone 6
VC 71 Cone 6 Matte
The ingredient fields should be filled in with names of ingredients rather than cryptic abreviations, eg. nepheline syenite rather than neph syn, EPK kaolin rather than EPK, Red iron oxide rather than RIO, Kentucky Ball Clay OM4 rather than OM4.
We will need to discuss further ingredients vs. add-ins. and the normalization of recipes to 100 plus add-ins. We may also want to discuss the notes that accompany recipes. For instance, we always want to credit the creator of a recipe and modifications as completely as possible.
Norm Stuart
I changed all of the recipes which were Reduction-fired Temmokus to a double M, and the oxidation Tenmokus to an nm.
I'll continue to edit the names this way, but I'm sure my spelling protocol is lost on everyone else in the world.
Jun 21, 2015
Donna Kat
Question, are not the ingredients limited to what is in the database of materials? I know that the database does have additional names so if I type in neph, it will replace it with Nepheline Syenite. If I type something that isn't in the AKA then it leaves a marker by the name and does not give the correct analysis. Have things changed?
Mar 8, 2018
Norm Stuart
Donna - It's good to see a database contributor back here. Thanks. Some tips for everyone.
In the Insight-Live Database I just added 50 grams of "sand" to my recipe for "Green Dragon". It's not an ingredient in the reference database or our database so it saves as:
" *sand " and it's not underlined because it's not a clickable link.
Sand doesn't add to the chemistry -- but it does change the Percentage Calculations -- because the recipe total is now 150.76 grams rather than 100.76.grams
So for example the LOI with sand is 7.4% rather than 11.1% - but the Unity Formula remains unchanged.
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I wish when entering a name it could bring up a search list inside the recipe, but if it could do this at one time it can't now. It would likely slow the database considerably - and Tony made some changes to speed things up.
So when I add an ingredient which get's starred I need to click on "Our Materials" and do a search.
Notice I can "Search Reference Materials" or "Search Ours" which is a very short list of stuff some of us have added. We can also add synonyms as you noted.
Here I searched for " neph " to find my name options.
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When we first bought Indian Mahavir Potash from Laguna Clay it wasn't in the database, so I added the entry on the right to "Our Materials". Now that Tony has added his on the left I can delete mine.
Notice that I can't edit the "Reference Material" on the left, but I can edit "My Material" on the right.
The chemistry I entered from Laguna is slightly different from the chemistry Tony added for the Reference Material.
Notice too, until I delete it, if you enter "PF01" in a recipe you will get my chemistry, but if you add "Mahavir Potash Feldspar" you will get the Reference chemistry rather than mine because the reference name supersedes any material with the same name in "Our Materials"
I can only preview both materials at the same time like this only through the magic of Photoshop copy and paste.
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Donna Kat said:
Mar 8, 2018