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 (11)
tomix_ch
Very nice render Ed. I like it!
Fractelaar
Knap plaatje Ed Mooi dat soft 3d Moest lachen om dat klein vogeltje in het center Heeft mijn steun in de strijd om de eer :-)
miwi
Excellent done,like it too!!!!!
VDH
Heel toepasselijk voor dit seizoen!Origineel en mooi design!Uitstekend Ed!V
spiegel428
I like the composition and soft texture. The sharper details don't fit very well in my opinion.
kansas
A wonderful fractal.
lgmac
Very beautiful...wonderful gradient.
grind
Personally I like the contrast between the sharper shapes and the blurred area. Great work!
soepie17
Was this the epicentre in Noordwijkerhout? :D
soffy
very lovely and elegant creation,excellently doneV
Harmen
very attractive and elegant piece of work Ed @};-