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)
renderix
cool!
CarolSassy
Very pretty details! I like the frosted look on the browns. Fantastic texturing! Lovely work! (:
mansco
Lovely texture work and a very special lighting. Well done ;O)
carlx
Very interesting forms and view!!! I like it!!!
Henny31
absolutely beautiful and very artistic. Interesting text also.
thecytron
Stunning colors!
ligt
dit is mooi, ed.
leonie
Totally cool, Ed! (from Dallas!)
clifftoppler
Scratching around? these guys usually splash and run. But then tapies does suggest a little chiseling. Sorry, my attrocious attempt at humour usually brings wrinkles to the brow. A nice conception, and I like the wall.
bpclarke
Super textures and colors. Very well done. Bunny
D.C.Monteny
Beautiful, and i love the TONS of detail!!
Xantipa
Wonderful, excellent work.
Fractelaar
Interresting structure work
VDH
Originele textuur en kleur!Excellent!
farmerC
Mooi lijnen spel erin.
daali
Beautiful work Ed
annie5
Great concept and idea..beautiful texture and colors!
tresamie
Fantastic textures!
three_grrr
Oh man, this is wonderful! I love the somewhat monochromatic feel this had, and the very dimensional effect, and the texture, and oh okay, I'll shut up.