Norm on fri 27 mar 98
Hey Folks,
I am looking for Glaze Calculation Software. Preferably Freeware or
Shareware to try out.
But will look at Regular Software as well.
Thanks, Norm! 8^o
gambaru on sat 28 mar 98
Tony Hansen's Insight program is superb. There is a trial version on his
websight. (digitalfire.com). The cost is very reasonable for the software
that you will receive and the ongoing updates. Also, more importantly, Tony
Hansen quickly answers questions and does not report you to the computer
police when you send one of those obviously answered queries.
Try it, I bet you will like it.. MB
-----Original Message-----
From: Norm
To: Multiple recipients of list CLAYART
Date: Friday, March 27, 1998 8:14 AM
Subject: Glaze Software
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hey Folks,
>
>I am looking for Glaze Calculation Software. Preferably Freeware or
>Shareware to try out.
>
>But will look at Regular Software as well.
>
>Thanks, Norm! 8^o
>
David Cowdrill on sat 28 mar 98
I have used the GlazeChem program and am very pleased with it. Shareware;
$25. It's available to download from:
http://www.tiac.net/users/rjw/library.htm
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>..
>I am looking for Glaze Calculation Software. Preferably Freeware or
>Shareware to try out.
David Cowdrill in Great Falls, VA (703) 430-2692
Marc Kiessling on sat 28 mar 98
Hi Norm:
'Ceramic Technical' did a review of 'Glaze Calculation Software'
in issue #3, 1996.
Web site locations:
Insight at: http://digitalfire.com/index.html
Glazechem at: http://www.tiac.net/users/rjw/library.htm
Glaze Simulator at: http://www.golden.net/~fraserf/
HyperGlaze at: http://members.aol.com/hyperglaze/index.html
Glaze Calculator at: http://www.seegreen.com/glazecalc/index.htm
That should keep you busy for awhile. Hope it helps
Cheers, Marc
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hey Folks,
>
>I am looking for Glaze Calculation Software. Preferably Freeware or
>Shareware to try out.
>
>But will look at Regular Software as well.
>
>Thanks, Norm! 8^o
>
>
Grimmer on sun 29 mar 98
Norm,
Insight is fast, versitile, and powerful. It's strong point is
calculation speed. The reporting features are superb. A good, well
supported peice of software. It does not have features to search
through a bazillion recipes to find one specific glaze, but the point
of Insight is to help you develop one good glaze, not test a million
bad ones.
Hyperglaze (mac only) is very good at cataloging a lot of recipes,
and has graphing functions. Calculations are a bit slow, as all
material info is stored on disk. It is a bit more intuitive than
Insight.
I have and use both for different things.
steve grimmer
marion illinois
Norm wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hey Folks,
>
> I am looking for Glaze Calculation Software. Preferably Freeware or
> Shareware to try out.
>
> But will look at Regular Software as well.
>
> Thanks, Norm! 8^o
Richard Burkett on wed 1 apr 98
Steve Grimmer says:
> Hyperglaze (mac only) is very good at cataloging a lot of recipes,
>and has graphing functions. Calculations are a bit slow, as all
>material info is stored on disk. It is a bit more intuitive than
>Insight.
Thanks for mentioning HyperGlaze, Steve. If you haven't tried HyperGlaze on
a Power Macintosh (or even better on one of the new G3 Macs which run about
twice as fast as an Intel computer and also run Windows) then you haven't
seen how fast it can be. Calculation times are only a couple of seconds.
Richard
_ Richard Burkett, Associate Professor of Art
_ The School of Art Design & Art History, SDSU, San Diego, CA 92182-4805
_ http://www.sdsu.edu/art
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RMalmgren on fri 3 apr 98
Norm,
A couple of other glaze software programs that you might want to look at can
be contacted through these addresses:
Matrix - for the Macintosh and Windows - write to Lawrence Ewing -
lewing@clear.net.nz
David Hewitt's Glaze Workbook -
http://digitalfire.com/education/people/hewitt.htm
Ceramis for FileMaker Pro 3.0 - http://members.tripod.com/~Ceramis/
Good luck!
Rick Malmgren
RMalmgren@aol.com
k.smead on thu 18 mar 99
Being new to CLAYART I am reluctant to inquire about glaze software since I
am sure it has been addressed many times. However, looking to begin the
journey into "Glazeland" and need to know everyone's most highly
recommended software package. Thank you..
katie
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7oise?= Melville on fri 13 aug 99
Ababi, I believe I was the first person in Canada to actually purchase
Glaze Simulator after using the trial version for a short time. I also
have Glaze Chem which is a neat little programme and easily understood by
an unmathematical potter like me. I did download trial version of Insight
and the manual which I tried hard to understand, but because I am a
single-firer I find Glaze Simulator to be the most helpful of the three.
When it tells me that my glaze is okay and will fit my body without crazing
or crawling, it is almost always right. Of course I took pains to adjust
the compression, viscosity and surface tension values so that they
coincided with those of a well-tried glaze which always worked for me on my
claybody.
Thanks, Fraser F. if you are still on the list.
Francoise
Indalo Pottery
http://members.tripod.com/~indalopottery
Fraser Forsythe on sat 14 aug 99
------------------
Thanks for the encouragement=21
I Just wanted to say that I am grateful to people like Fran=E7oise and =
Ababi.
They are buying and comparing glaze calculation software packages (not just
Glaze Simulator) and in so doing are very directly supporting this kind of
development. Everyone will benefit because the versions will get better and
more intuitive, and more ceramic artists will be able to make informed
decisions about glaze formulation. I hope with falling prices more people =
can
support the development of glaze calculation software through upgrading (at =
a
reasonable pace) to new versions.
On a more personal note both Fran=E7oise and Ababi provided much needed =
feedback
about the program. They (and others) were very supportive, even though the
program is not perfect (yet).
Again, thanks.
Fraser Forsythe
ps. Version II is coming soon.
fraserf=40golden.net
William Hendry on tue 7 may 02
I would like to hear about the strengths and weaknesses of the Matrix =
and Insight software from people who have had experience with either of =
these programs; and especially from anyone who has worked with both of =
them.
Thanks
William
Paul Lewing on wed 8 may 02
on 5/7/02 6:53 PM, William Hendry at whendry@CHARTER.NET wrote:
> I would like to hear about the strengths and weaknesses of the Matrix =
> and Insight software from people who have had experience with either of =
> these programs; and especially from anyone who has worked with both of =
> them.
Hi, William.
I have the Mac versions of both of these, so my comments may not apply to
you. especially since I understand there is a new version of Matrix for the
PC out.
My assessment of these two, as with all the other programs out there, is
this: it depends on what you want to do and how you think about your glazes.
Here are my opinions, and they are only mine.
Insight is my favorite of the 4 programs I have, although if I had a PC, I'd
get GlazeChem, too. I haven't seen it in a while and never in great depth,
but I'd check it out. But Insight is the easiest to use if what you want to
do is modify and invent glazes, because changes appear instantly and
automatically. The feature of Insight that I like, that far outweighs any
of the bells and whistles on other programs, is the ability to see two
glazes at once, so you can compare two recipes, or a recipe and changes to
it. Sorting and classifying your recipes is not very straightforward, and
figuring out the composition of blends is hard. The backup information and
support is second to none. I've heard, but I haven't tried them, that the
tutorials are very frustrating.
Matrix is the one you want if you like doing blends, particularly if you're
into Ian Currie's grid method. It's really designed for that. I hear that
the new version lets you see two recipes at once, and that would be a big
plus. My opinions about how the program operates are colored by the fact
that I have the old Mac version, which I wouldn't recommend anybody get,
even if it still is available. Using it is like being Moses and seeing the
Promised Land at a distance. You can see how wonderful it would be if you
could only get there. But it just doesn't work. My version has three
different options for choosing the order in which oxides are chosen to make
a recipe from a formula, and that's really great. It also comes with a
great tutorial course.
You wouldn't go wrong with either of them, and any calculation program will
help you enormously in understanding glazes. And all of these programs are
very simple to learn to use. They just don't do much, compared to a good
word processing or spreadsheet program.
Good luck, Paul Lewing
Ababi on thu 9 may 02
Hello William
I have both.
Both have advantage and disadvantage.
As time passing I prefer matrix.
In Insight you can copy a recipe from an E mail to the program. It is
not working if the numbers are coming first.
In matrix it is easier to copy into E mail.
In Insight it is easier to change the analysis or price.
Yet as time passing I see myself using Matrix more and Insight less.
I had wrote once to Tony Hansen, told him Insight was like a small
Jeep, easy to load easy to work. I cannot use the new Insight in my
computer. Might be my computer, might be another reason.
In Matrix, it is very easy to built a limit table according to a result
of tests you have made
Matrix 4 was a very good program. Matrix 5 is a wonderful program.
Has an easy tutorial.
Both Tony Hansen and Lawrence Ewing give you wonderful support!
For a self leaning person I can tell you more things.
1) What ever you buy, I recommend on the electronic book The Magic Of
Fire by Tony Hansen. Very details explanation about the oxides &
materials.
Must say in Matrix say there are very good explanations about oxides
2) Since I have Matrix I find myself making blending, I was pulled to
learn Ian Currie's grid.
I do not do it, too much work, but you can prepare it in matrix and try
to predict what part of the greed you want to make
In matrix you can see graphically the limit table, very helpful to
adjust the recipe, also not sure of the importance, different table to
each cone.
I prefer the way I keep and re find the recipe in Matrix, much easier
than in insight, both older and new versions.
In the new Insight, the one I cannot run properly there is a huge
database of materials that can be changed by you. I think Tony Hansen
actually inserted his into his program
Yet there is a huge database of materials in Matrix ....and I must
wake up my daughter that hates high school
So I hope I helped you
In my site you can see how I made by using three different recipes a
wild combination .
Ababi Sharon
Kibbutz Shoval- Israel
Glaze addict
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/
---------- Original Message ----------
>I would like to hear about the strengths and weaknesses of the Matrix
>and Insight software from people who have had experience with either of
>these programs; and especially from anyone who has worked with both of
>them.
>Thanks
>William
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