Sonia Marie Hibberd on fri 7 aug 98
If you use or have ever used any computer software (Photoshop, CAD,
glaze calculations, etc.) to aid in your ceramic creation process, I
would like to know:
-What software do you find helpful to you as a ceramist? Why?
-What software have you tried and found too cumbersome or unsuited to
ceramic work?
-What features would you like to see implemented in existing or future
software?
-Have you tried designing ceramic pieces with the aid of a computer?
-What did you think of your computer-aided ceramic
design experiences?
I'm working on student research, designing software that is more
ceramist-friendly, so your input can help a ton!
- Sonia Hibberd
Knox College
Galesburg, Illinois
Grimmer on sun 9 aug 98
Hi,
I actually use my computer an awful lot for my studio business. A list
in order of usage frequency:
1. Outlook Express for reading my ClayArt every day. Wouldn't be without it.
ClayArt, that is. Probably any email reader would do, but the mac interface
on this effort from Microsquash is rather nice. Good filter feature
features, too.
2. Insight 5.0i for the mac. Not completely polished (yet), but this is a
fast and versatile glaze calculator. Use it for a while and it becomes
second nature. It can keep up with my peripatetic thought process and
calculate changes as fast as I can type them in. Hyperglaze has more bells
and whistles such as graphing capabilities, and can catalog loads of
recipes, but it is slow. Very intuitive, though.
3. Microsoft Excel. I'm working on a spreadsheet to generate the recipes for
quadraxial blends of four different oxides. It's great for any sort of
accounting work, too.
4. Mac Draw 1.9.5, circa 1992. Great little bit of software for doing kiln
blueprints. Draw a brick, duplicate it a billion times into a stack, and
start laying brick with the mouse. No worries about dimensions or anything.
I've designed 3 kilns this way. Tried more powerful CAD and drawing
software, but all the fancy drafting tools can't replace laying bricks.
5. Quicken. Good records are a must, and quicken does a great job of both
household and sole prop. finances.
For designing pots, nothing beats lots of drawing on paper and lots of
throwing on the wheel.
steve grimmer
marion illinois.
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>If you use or have ever used any computer software (Photoshop, CAD,
>glaze calculations, etc.) to aid in your ceramic creation process, I
>would like to know:
>
>-What software do you find helpful to you as a ceramist? Why?
>
>-What software have you tried and found too cumbersome or unsuited to
>ceramic work?
>
>-What features would you like to see implemented in existing or future
>software?
>
>-Have you tried designing ceramic pieces with the aid of a computer?
> -What did you think of your computer-aided ceramic
>design experiences?
>
>I'm working on student research, designing software that is more
>ceramist-friendly, so your input can help a ton!
>
>- Sonia Hibberd
>Knox College
>Galesburg, Illinois
Richard Burkett on wed 12 aug 98
Steve Grimmer says:
>Hyperglaze has more bells
>and whistles such as graphing capabilities, and can catalog loads of
>recipes, but it is slow. Very intuitive, though.
Thanks for the comments, Steve. If you haven't tried HyperGlaze on a Power
Macintosh, or better yet a Macintosh G3, then you haven't really seen how
fast HyperGlaze can work. Calculations take only a couple of seconds at
most.
Richard Burkett - School of Art, SDSU, San Diego, CA 92182-4805
E-mail: richard.burkett@sdsu.edu <-> Voice mail: (619) 594-6201
Home Page: http://rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/rburkett/www/burkett.html
CeramicsWeb: http://art.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb/
HyperGlaze@aol.com & http://members.aol.com/hyperglaze/
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