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)
eras50
I love the whole thing, the image, the colours and the dedication. V
Fractelaar
Wonderful strong pattern Ed Like the layerplay -textures My vote for it
renderix
wonderful fff!
zzzzra
Beautiful fractal flower !
mountmous
What a lovely dedication, Ed, and a beautiful image.
Dindin
A lovely flower Ed and a great dedication to a victim of WW2 .A time we should never forget but sadly enough innocent people today are still beeing murdered in wars all over the globe .When will the human race ever grow up .
kansas
A beautiful fractal. Wonderful tribute to your friend and victim of the holocaust.
VDH
Mooi design, kleur en vooral geslaagde texture! BraVo Ed!!
mansco
Wonderful tribute and lovely artwork full of love ;O)
MichaelFaber
That is beautiful. what a lovely reminder of a terrible time.