is the fastest, smallest, most reliable cross platform database. It is built into INSIGHT. In Jan 2010 multi-user INSIGHT is coming! INSIGHT also supports file system data store: it reads and writes all legacy format recipe files using a standard file open/save dialog. Upgrade/renew.

There is a direct relationship between the way ceramic glazes fire and their chemistry. INSIGHT is a calculation tool anyone can use to learn and harness the power of ceramic chemistry.

• Fix problems like crazing, blistering, pinholing, settling, clouding, leaching, crawling, marking, scratching, powdering.
• Substitute frits or incorporate better, cheaper materials, replace no-longer-available ones.
• Adjust melting temperature, gloss, surface character, color.
• Identify weaknesses in your glazes to avoid problems.
• Creating and optimizing base glazes to work with difficult colors or stains and for special effects dependent on opacification, crystallization or variegation.
• Create your own glazes from scratch and use your own native materials in the highest possible percentage.

Without ceramic chemistry you'll never really have control and you could be a slave to the textbook recipe culture or your suppliers. Learn more

Latest Builds: Windows: 2009-12, OS9: 2007-7, OSX: 2009-11b, Linux: 2009-12

The Digitalfire Reference Database is a materials-centric knowledgebase of 4,000 pages and 11,000 interlinks with everything you need to know to formulate, adjust and troubleshoot traditional ceramic bodies and glazes (and there is no advertising on the pages!). But you need INSIGHT Level 2 to see the key features.