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Things that answer a question while you’re standing at the bench, in the browser, without an account.
The Color Pairing Tool
Pick any color and see the closest real Bullseye sheet for it — then pull a full harmony off the wheel. 174 sheet colors across the opalescent, transparent and tint lines, each linking back to Bullseye’s own product page.
Reaction Finder
Pick a glass and see every color it can react with in the kiln, and why — straight off Bullseye’s own sulfur, copper and lead lists. Tells you which partners come as frit or stringer. Useful whether you want the dark line or want to avoid it.
PrototypeFrit Preview
See frit colors together before you sift — drawn as actual grains, at the real mesh size for powder, fine, medium or coarse. 140 Bullseye frits. Hand it a photo and it picks the frits for you.
LiveMosaic Maker
Rows of tesserae that follow a shape and taper around it, the way they are laid by hand, with a plain field behind. Matched to real Bullseye sheets, and the cut list says which pieces come off a strip and which are nipper work.
LiveStringer Calculator
How many stringers a piece needs at 0.5, 1 or 2 mm thickness. Lines across, down or as a grid, with a to-scale diagram and a check against tube quantities.
LiveCutting Calculator
How many pieces come off a sheet, what each one costs, and a layout you can actually cut — straight-through breaks only, the way glass really snaps.
LiveTemplate Maker
Printable cutting templates at true size — circles, diamonds, hexagons, half moons, crescents, grids and strips, each with a note on how to cut it.
LiveStringer Blocks
Design a striped stringer sheet, then cut it at an angle and mirror the pieces into kaleidoscope blocks. Says how many stringers of each color to buy, and how many tubes.
LiveCurve Maker
Panels of interlocking curved pieces on a clear base. Every piece cut to fit its neighbours, printed as a numbered template, with the saw-only pieces marked.
LiveArc Maker
Lay circles and straight cuts across a panel and let the shapes they carve out be the pieces — lenses, crescents, segments. Numbered template, saw-only pieces marked.
Tell me what you’re guessing at
Every tool here starts as a question somebody kept having to answer the hard way. If you keep doing a calculation on the back of an envelope before you fire, that’s a candidate.
Ten tools so far.
This section fills up as tools get built. Nothing is listed here until it actually works — no placeholder cards for things that don’t exist yet.