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 (20)
carlx
Wonderful, very elegant and amazing colors!!! Fantastic spiral, excellent!!!!
mansco
Wonderful transparency and lighting ;O)
annie5
A real beauty..very elegant and rich colors too! Extremely well done Ed! :)
three_grrr
Oh I love the subtle colors! So very beautiful!!
D.C.Monteny
Very beautiful, love it that you can see straight through the spiral, looks like it's made of coloured glass.
CarolSassy
Love these earthy colors and the light points are fantastic! Wonderful details and texturing! Excellent work! (:
Fractelaar
Fijne spiraal met mooie licht en donker contrastwerk
-Josh-
So harmoniously and excellente colors. Wonderful spiral image !
XoxoTree
Real pretty. I like this a lot. :)
bpclarke
Elegant and beautiful. Bunny
kansas
A gorgeous spiral. Wonderful texture and the lighting is perfect.
da_mar
Beautiful, subtle colors, wonderful texture and lighting, fantastic composition!
fractalinda
So rich in detail and texture. Gorgeous, elegant and excellent!
Squid123
Fantastic fractal!!!!
FractaliaNo1
FAV
Xantipa
Wonderful, super texture. ++5
Juliette.Gribnau
gorgeous !!.. I second Urchin 1996
farmerC
Dit is heel mooi werk.
mps
Very pretty spiral.
Henny31
sorry hoor ik ben heel ver achter met comenteren en schaam me een beetje. Zal proberen het allemaal in te halen.. This one is just gorgeous..you get the hang of it looks like! Yes UF is great for spirals..