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 (19)
CarolSassy
This has to be your very best! Excellent and beautiful! Fantastic colors 'n' lighting, depth and details. Thank you! (:
Ethereal1
Beautiful work!
mansco
I agree with CarolSassy ;O) it's great!
Dindin
To enjoy the beauty of this fantastic image ZOOM IN PLEASE !!! ED I guess this is a FFF and it
s the most beautiful I
ve seen till now .You realy are a master of this program .My compliments .XoxoTree
I like this a lot. I know what you mean when you not totally satisfy with it. I feel the same way on a lot of my images. Any way this is excellent work and it will be nice to see what you create with UF. Have fun. :)
renderix
fantastic fractal:-)
jockc
really cool looking
fractalinda
Grand and dynamic. Love the way this moves and grooves. Excellent.
AnnaKirsten
Very beautiful - shame you're not satisfied with it, but you know what it is you are wanting to achieve! I like the virtual 3D effect within it, and particularly the colours and shapes.
miwi
Excellent composition,klasse work!!!!
kansas
This IS a beauty! Hope you don't stop using FFF completely! You really make FFF work that is so lovely.
missie_mandelbrot
Wow, wonderful perspective and 3D. I like your colours here too. Great to hear you are using UF Ed.
daali
superb 3D effect,compliments
Fractelaar
SuperB Ed and congrats to have it in the FWW Nice to see there inside a FFF image well deserved !!
gumbykat
Beautiful, Ed! Great light and movement, both! This definitely belongs in the FWW. Congrat!
fractalchemist
Niets dan lof voor deze prachtige fractal, Ed!
Henny31
Ed Ik vind deze ongelooflijk mooi en een verdiende plaats in "the weekly best". Proficiat hoor. Ik hoop dat je er zelf ook tevreden over bent en niet ophoud met FFFertjes te maken. Wat moet ik dan doen als ik geen "role model" meer heb?
kareldg
Excellent fractal .I understand it's difficult to change to another program when you have such wonderful results.
milleniumsentry
I am very fond of this image. You chose a very nice gradient very chrome like and cool and it brought out the stucture and form of the fractal very nicely. I have always loved fractals with great banding effects... so I love how the bands flip, much like an optical illusion.