Learn glaze
chemistry &
INSIGHT

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You will learn the direct relationships between the way glazes fire and their chemistry

What is INSIGHT?

INSIGHT is a classic ceramic chemistry calculator.
It interactively converts recipes to formulas and back. The main INSIGHT window shows side-by-side recipes and their formulas, you can make chemistry changes to one while comparing it with the other.
INSIGHT is also a library and a teacher
It puts at your fingertips a huge amount of information to help you learn the principles of ceramic chemistry and it teaches you how to adjust, fix and formulate glazes.
It is a database
You can store all your recipes, picture, material information where you can easily find it.
It is a problem solver
Using our videos, instructional and reference materials and our personal help you can solve problems like crazing, leaching, crawling, pinholing, blistering, etc.

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 INSIGHT

SQLite 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.

Learning INSIGHT

It 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 an 640x480 mp4 file.

Prices

See the Red Numbers below in the chart.

Feature Comparison Click 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)				OnLine Version
	**Free Trial	Level 1 $59	Level 2 $149	Site License $695	Insight-Live From 3¢/day
Multi-Platform: [Windows] [OSX] [OS9] [Linux]					+SmartPhones/Tablets
Works on Cloud Drives					Lives in the cloud!
Download privileges expire in	2 months	3 years	4 years	5 years	Nothing to download
Continues to run after expiry					Read-only
Ceramic chemistry calculation	Interactive	Interactive	Interactive	Interactive	Passive
Integrates with Digitalfire Reference Library
Maintain materials database as Excel CSV					It is a database
Free copy of 4Sight Ceramic Database					Does what 4Sight did
Install on many computers for use by many people					Has group accounts
Insight-Live account included for duration of key					not applicable
Account to administer a group on Insight-Live.com					not applicable
Support for units-of-measure, firing schedules, projects, recipe variations, inter-recipe linking, reference materials and recipes
Unlimited materials, recipes
Physical testing data management
Picture searching, management
Advanced searching, import/export
Side-by-side recipes	2	2	2	2	Unlimited
Side-by-side recipes and materials					Unlimited
Features evolve automatically, automatic backup, secure, works on any device with a browser and internet