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Consider how valuable your glaze and body development records are. Are they in a three-ring binder? Or do you have pictures and notes scattered across apps on your phone? If you're testing, adjusting, or developing glazes, bodies, underglazes or engobes, traditional notebooks and binders are holding you back. They don't have keywords, and they are only grouped, not categorized. With Insight-live, you can link recipes to each other and to important details like photos, materials, firing schedules and URLs. Organize test recipes into projects, classify them with typecodes (tokens), calculate chemistry, and create mix tickets. Research materials and perform keyword searches. Put anything side-by-side to study and determine the next move. Physical notebooks can’t do this—but your account at Insight-live.com can!

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The secret to cool and functional bodies and glazes is a lot of testing.
The secret to know what to test is material and chemistry knowledge.
The secret to learning from testing is documentation.
The place to document is an account at insight-live.com.
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Formulating a Porcelain
The principles behind formulating a porcelain are quite simple. You just need to know the purpose of each material, a starting recipe and a testing regimen. |
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How I Formulated G2934 Cone 6 Silky MgO Matte Glaze Using Insight-Live
I will show you how found a recipe on Facebook, assessed it, substituted my own materials, tested it, adjusted it. |
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Digitalfire Insight-Live
A cloud-hosted ceramics-targeted LIMS (lab info management system). It does glaze chemistry and physical testing the “Digitalfire way”. For technicians, educators, potters and hobbyists. |
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