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 (17)
Juliette.Gribnau
wow...what a trip !! fantastisch ontwerp, erg orgineel F
VDH
Inderdaad, heel origineel werk!Mooie afwerking!
Fractelaar
Ik zou zeggen visit eens een koffie shop wie weet wat dat voor fractal uitwerking heeft op jouw LOL Real cool trip Ed en a very good and orginal name
CarolSassy
Very cool circly details! Great choice of colors! Wonderful glow about this! (:
Xantipa
This is wonderful, nice composition and colors. Bravo.
da_mar
Very unique....awesome work.
Chromotron
beautiful shapes and colors. I like the small concentric circles a lot. nice work !
kansas
Great title for this image. I like the circles of different sizes sprinkled around.
carlx
Wonderful details and colors!!! Lovely sharp and soft pieces!!!
leonie
Totally cool colours and shapes! :D
rocserum
I see a surpriced face (sorry, I've had a wrong "paddo") excellent! RS
Lipa
Powerful and elegant, too.
bpclarke
The rich colors and design are magnificent. Excellent work. Bunny
Richardphotos
totally unique fractal and what a design!!!
farmerC
Geen Paddo's maar een heel mooi modern stuk. Klasse Ed,
dinner
Fraai stukje werk, Ed !
three_grrr
Oh my gosh, this has such depth it looks like I could put my hand through the layers and feel the background! Some of the little circle thingies are almost like in my face, and others are like further "in" the image, like looking in a mirror or something. Way cool, 3d hallucination!