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)
mundih
don't know what to say this is really fantastic i ispecialy love the colors used
Fractelaar
Wonderful fractalwork Ed a real eye catcher so well the big pattern as the tumb and thanks for the lessons :-)
fractalchemist
Een mooie Valentijn kaart, ik vind vooral de "warmtevelden (heatmaps)" heel fraai!
renderix
very cool fff! compliment
DigiArts
Beautiful work (love the detail and colors) and a great explanation. I want to experiment with your process.
Henny31
excellence is all I can say. Thanks for the tip.
Redshift
Fantastic coloring on this splendid fractal, Ed, bravo!!
miwi
Cool image,very well done !!!!!
maud
Fantastic details and colors..very very well done :)
kansas
Very beautiful! The colors are wonderful.