Jessica Morton on wed 28 mar 01
I've been asked to post a question about glaze programs. Our college
is considering buying one - have heard of MATRIX thanks to William's
post, and others as well here on clayart, understand their purpose,
not sure where to start researching for this purchase.
Anyone care to suggest a user-friendly, wide-range-of-applications
program for student (and occasionally more advanced) use?
Thanks in advance.
"It's not that children are little scientists but that
scientists are big children."
---"The Scientist in the Crib" by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl
Mary-Helen Horne on thu 29 mar 01
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:12:41 -0800, Jessica Morton wrote:
>I've been asked to post a question about glaze programs. Our college
>is considering buying one - have heard of MATRIX thanks to William's
>post, and others as well here on clayart, understand their purpose,
>not sure where to start researching for this purchase.
>Anyone care to suggest a user-friendly, wide-range-of-applications
>program for student (and occasionally more advanced) use?
>
Rick Malmgren has written a number of articles for Ceramics Monthly
comparing the various programs. His lastest was "A LOOK AT GLAZE
CALCULATION SOFTWARE" and "USING GLAZE PROGRAMS" in the JUNe 1998 issue.
See Page 38.
I happen to use GlazeChem 1.2 written by Robert Wilt. It is simple,
accessible, works fine on Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT. Matrix and others
seem to have more bells and whistles, but for my purposes this has done
just fine. You can go to CeramicsWeb to download a shareware version. The
nicest thing about it is that it comes pre-loaded with glazes from
GlazeBase.
Regards,
Mary-Helen Horne
Ababi on thu 29 mar 01
I am not so sure that the pre loaded recipes is such a great thing, You can
download these recipes yourself. Than what? Will you ever use 1000 recipes
for ^08-^10 ox& red.? It is nice to read keep and test some your favorite
and use your software smartly to develop more glazes yourself.I would not
buy a software for this reason.
I tried to understand Glazechem, it looks to me like a huge, comprehensive
database for ceramics.The "bells and whistles" that you write about, are the
nicer graphics. I would not buy a software for the way it looks, but for the
way it can help me. Different people different needs.
Ababi Sharon
ababisha@shoval.ardom.co.il
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary-Helen Horne"
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: to Gerstley Borate.... and beyond
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:12:41 -0800, Jessica Morton
wrote:
>
> >I've been asked to post a question about glaze programs. Our college
> >is considering buying one - have heard of MATRIX thanks to William's
> >post, and others as well here on clayart, understand their purpose,
> >not sure where to start researching for this purchase.
> >Anyone care to suggest a user-friendly, wide-range-of-applications
> >program for student (and occasionally more advanced) use?
> >
>
> Rick Malmgren has written a number of articles for Ceramics Monthly
> comparing the various programs. His lastest was "A LOOK AT GLAZE
> CALCULATION SOFTWARE" and "USING GLAZE PROGRAMS" in the JUNe 1998 issue.
> See Page 38.
>
> I happen to use GlazeChem 1.2 written by Robert Wilt. It is simple,
> accessible, works fine on Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT. Matrix and others
> seem to have more bells and whistles, but for my purposes this has done
> just fine. You can go to CeramicsWeb to download a shareware version. The
> nicest thing about it is that it comes pre-loaded with glazes from
> GlazeBase.
>
> Regards,
> Mary-Helen Horne
>
>
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