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 (13)
eras50
I'm sure Newton would be delighted to see such a brilliant rendering of his roots!
Titia
A wonderful detailed fractal.
Fractelaar
Fijntjes met dat zachte emboss effect een elegant plaatje Ed mooi patroontje voor gordijnen
Marsille
Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Love the purple..
daffodilbaggins
Very aptly named, and I'm sure he would be amazed at all the things we do with such mathematical formulas!
kansas
Great title and a very beautiful Newton fractal.
fractalchemist
You can find my roooot, find my root! Bravo for Newton and his box of wonders! A delicate beaaaaauty Ed:-)
fractalinda
Lovely and excellent. I like it.
renderix
beautiful fractal!
Fuzzball
Very pretty fractal, and love the colors and lighting...well done!!! =)
sossy
very responding creation with a unique expression of glow and depth! ;o)
Dindin
Heel heel mooi en fragile ED doet mij aan dure lingerie denken .
oldasthehills
reminds me of the delicate tatting that my mother always did - absolutely beautiful