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A desktop application for Windows, Linux, Macintosh that you download and install.
Insight was first released in 1979 and has been used world wide since. It is an excellent teaching tool for demonstrating the principles of formula/analysis/unity, limit formulas, LOI, and material-oxide relationships. Insight + SQLite = Supercharged Database InsightSQLite is the fastest, smallest, most reliable cross platform database and it is integrated into level 1 and 2 Insight! This is the same database that is in your smart phone, tablet or MP3 player. Read about it at http://sqllite.org (you can download a command-line shell from there to execute SQL commands on the database). Insight builds the database automatically at startup (if it does not exist) and imports any existing recipe files it finds. The Insight recipe database is in just one file, it is maintained in the same folder as MDT and recipe files, so it is easy to find and backup. Insight now uses the traditional XML format recipe files as an automatic backup so you can actually erase the database file and it will be rebuilt and the recipes reimported! The previous recipe filing system has not been discarded, but improved: it reads and writes all legacy format recipe files using a standard file open/save dialog. Insight has always been targeted at ceramic calculations but now it also has the best database. |
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Learning INSIGHTIt is simple: Click Video Tutorials (above left) to learn to use INSIGHT and to formulate, fix and adjust glazes at the same time. The videos will play on any standard PC with Flash installed, but they will also play on iOS, Android or any device that can play a 640x480 mp4 file. PricesSee the Red Numbers below in the chart.To BuyLogin or create an account |
Feature ComparisonClick links below for more information. References to Insight-Live.com refer to online version, it is a separate product. | Desktop INSIGHT Version (to buy click here) |
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| **Free Trial |
Level 1 $59 |
Level 2 $149 |
Site License $695 |
Insight-Live From 3¢/day | |
| Multi-Platform: [Windows] [OSX] [OS9] [Linux] |  |
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| Download privileges expire in | 2 months | 3 years | 4 years | 5 years | Nothing to download |
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| Ceramic chemistry calculation | Interactive | Interactive | Interactive | Interactive | Passive |
| Integrates with Digitalfire Reference Library | |
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| Maintain materials database as Excel CSV | |
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It is a database |
| Free copy of 4Sight Ceramic Database | |
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| Install on many computers for use by many people | |
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| Insight-Live account included for duration of key | |
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| Support for units-of-measure, firing schedules, projects, recipe variations, inter-recipe linking, reference materials and recipes | |
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| Unlimited materials, recipes | |
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| Physical testing data management | |
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| Advanced searching, import/export | |
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| Side-by-side recipes | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Unlimited |
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| Features evolve automatically, automatic backup, secure, works on any device with a browser and internet | |
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What People Are Saying
- I have a Mac and operate OSX. You can send it to me at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty ... Again, thank you, I really enjoy working with INSIGHT.
- Your support for Linux is a big reason why I purchased your program.
- The software installed great. I bought it specifically due to a crazing issue and to help with the fear of understanding glaze chemistry more fully. The video tutorials are useful. Insight as an invaluable tool to this quest of course, sort of a working course that goes at the users pace but which allows them to create their own recipes and truly understanding the chemistry behind them.
- I've been drooling over this program for years now. Let's hope I can learn from it. I have a feeling you'll be on call a lot for me.
- I'm having so much fun with this program that I'm not making pots I'm designing and fixing glazes!
