Ed Algra, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1930, now living near Rotterdam. My education was a technical one, I came by accident to artistry, although I always had much interest in art, photography and music.Â
I’m a retired chemical engineer, worked at a research institute on mechanical properties of plastics and composite materials. I heard of fractals for the first time in the late eighties, and then read the well known books of Prof. Hans Lauwerier and other authors on this subject. At that time I also attended a Fractal symposium at the Technical University Delft, where Benoît Mandelbrot and some other prominent authors revealed the secrets of this new mathematical world. The pictures they showed made an overwhelming impression. Years after that, after my retirement and the connection to the web in 2005, I discovered what had happened in the meantime, the birth of a new kind of art, based on fractal concepts. Then it became a creative hobby for me. Both the mathematical and the artistic side of it have my interest.  Especially Ultra Fractal offers the possibility to write your own fractal math codes, and I love it to do so. I started Renderosity uploading on instigation of Arend Nijdam, aka “Fractelaar†in September 2005.
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Comments (10)
Fractelaar
Heel netjes en knap uitgevoerd de zachte papier texture doet het goed en het raster patroon is boeiend
TheGroovyDude
Excellent work........... simple and effective.......... good choice of colour and texture....... Could be a fish eye view of a net being cast...............
tutri
Cool as ice, very nice minimalistic work!
leanndra
Ed, Amazing, simplistic and stunning! Leanndra
RNGOERNER
Great design, Ed - love the perspective and dynamics of this! The minimalism is very effective and you still achieve a dynamic sense of depth. Bravo!
thecytron
This is very beautifull and right to the point!
servo
I agree with others that this work is a testament to how something very simple can be intruguing and intricate. Very nicely done. v
tresamie
Fantastic netting, and networking too, lol! lovely shapes and flow.
zoozee
Beautiful net :) .. Yes simple can have a great effect .. this proves it ! .. Wonderful work :))
clifftoppler
A beautiful image, the three coloured "knots" giving points of interest at a point where the eye naturally needs it. Cliff.