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 (9)
mansco
Wonderful work and impressive story !
Mondwin
Superbly artpiece!!!!Bravo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
Dindin
Ed I like your story and the beautiful soft toned fractal that accopanies it . Justice is becoming a huge joke ,all you need is an excellent and very ,very expensive lawyer to get you off . Yup ,agree with your last sentence :)
VDH
Mooi werk Ed! Misschien mag ik je vragen mij het verhaal eens in het Nederlands te laten geworden, waarvoor dank!!
fractalinda
A sobering thought, Ed, and I agree. Thank you for sharing the stories of these poor misjudged victims who have suffered so..and for your perspective. The faded coloring is effective, as are the smudges and dimming light. The proverbial winter of their collective discontent and misfortune is portrayed in your excellent fractal image.
CarolSassy
Very interesting commentary Ed. I do however have a life outside of this fractal gallery. This is a lovely fractal! I like the colors and teeny spirals all around it! Nice texturing as well. Thank you! (:
abmlober
A very elegant design.
MountainEd
Very graceful Ed. See you in class. (don't know about the Netherlands, but in the US we have a bad joke in this situation, "2 Ed's are better than 1!" ; - )
classyladytwo
Beautiful fractal Ed interesting information here, gorgeous and elegant as always :)