Alisha Clarke on mon 19 nov 07
Nice job of compiling those glazes, John!
Leesh
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Alisha Clarke
Pottery by Leesh: www.alishaclarke.com
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On Nov 18, 2007 4:56 PM, John Sankey wrote:
> Wow - it's true: all the tested glazes I could find in the
> Clayart archives have been entered, standardized, and a first
> level of screening done. Now is the most dangerous time in any
> computer project: when a project gives pretty output but hasn't
> yet been vetted by real users!
>
> So, take a look at
> http://sankey.ws/glazedata.html
> see if you can spot any errors or omissions, and let me know of
> anything you find that doesn't look right, via Clayart if you
> prefer but private email is better.
>
> As I noted from the beginning of the project, the sole purpose of
> this dataset is to permit numerical analysis and consistent
> searching of glazes, not to replace the archives or other
> projects.
>
> My biggest difficulty was glaze names - they were extremely
> variable and often not an accurate reflection of what the glaze
> actually does. I have standardized names in several respects:
> 1. when I know the name of the originator of a glaze, I have
> used that person's surname in the glaze name,
> 2. each glaze name includes the colour actually seen by the
> tester,
> 3. each name is unique within this dataset,
> 4. duplicate glazes have been merged; glazes of very similar
> oxide analysis are noted for each, and
> 5. glazes used as a base for colorants have been named Base,
> then each colour test using it is given the full base name
> with a colour added.
>
> I should have kept better track of the names used in the archives
> to include them for each glaze here, but I goofed on that during
> initial entry. So, I've had to go back to add them, and there are
> still a lot missing. Let me know the original names of any you
> notice. I'll keep trying to systematically fill them in.
>
> Next, formulate the questions you would like to ask concerning
> glazes in the set. A proper web interface is under development by
> Odin se forward them to Odin so he knows how
> to debug his web interface code. Then, it's up to each questioner
> to decide how well the question has been answered; failures will
> be addressed by Odin or me as appropriate.
>
> John
>
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Alisha Clarke
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