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 (21)
Juliette.Gribnau
mooi !! lijkt wel geschilderd !
philuf
Don't go back to "normality", this is beautiful. Textures on fractals are getting them even higher.
Lipa
Excellent picture. Strange colours and texture, great impression.
Sid_Bolero
excellent. very interesting
mountmous
Beautiful rough texturing. You might try rendering without anti-aliasing instead of "normal". Or you could make the texturing more rough in UF so some of it remains after rendering.
carlx
Gorgeous colors and textures!!! I agree with philuf!!!
Xantipa
Very nice work..
mansco
Love it's textures, gives a lovely style to your work ;O)
VDH
Originele textures!Well done!
miwi
Excellent done,please more of this kind!!!!!!
daffodilbaggins
Actually, it's cool! You do realize you just did a fractal sand painting, don't you? grin Very nicely done, too, and extremely interesting. You just feel free to upload any of these you want to, we don't mind a bit! :D
CarolSassy
Fantastic texturing 'n' colors! (:
kansas
Wonderful rough texture look. Yes, there are times it is better to not render an image in order to retain the texture. Excellent.
rocserum
UF can be very surprising, excellently done! RS
bpclarke
Even differences can be fun. I really like the result of this. The colors and the soft edges. Excellent work. Bunny
afugatt
This is wonderful. I love the textures.
amota99517
Love the rought textures. Great patterns and colors.
Electralena
Very unique and beautiful image!!!
annie5
Magnific texture and colors..nice effect too! love it :)
pops
This is awesome
three_grrr
Oh wow! Ed! This is magnificent! I'd love to see some more of these! I love the sort of grunge apocolytic feel to this one!