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.ÂÂ
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)
Lipa
Wonderful. A human figure spiralling around. Mighty colours, too.
CarolSassy
Excellent texturing! Lovely colors, details and 3D'ness! Wonderful dedication to a wonderful artist! (:
Xantipa
Very lovely..
Electralena
This is really beautiful. Excellent coloring, texture, design. Wonderful work!!!
maria4scott
Beautiful work, great textures.
daffodilbaggins
Lovely dedi to an excellent fractal artist, and the texturing here is really wonderful!
carlx
Wonderful scene and dedication, Ed!!! Superb work!!!
terrybyte
This is very beautiful. I love your choice of colors and the textures. Great job.
amota99517
Oustanding and stunning!!! Love the colors and texture work.
Juliette.Gribnau
beautiful !
annie5
Fantastic texture and colors..stunning design! Wonderful dedication too :)
afugatt
I love the coloring and texuture you used. Well done. Nice dedication from a talented artist to a talented artist.
mansco
Lovely dedi and a real lovely fractal ;O)
Gaiadriel
Yes, Ed...I see how Linda came to mind as you worked this one. Wonderful texturing..and lovely muted palette filled with unexpected and beautiful details. Splendid dedi to her, a lovely person, and exceptionally talented artist :)
VDH
Mooi design en texture!Excellent 3D effect! Well done!!
bpclarke
Gorgeous dedi and work. I love the almost the same, but the subtle differences are what differentiate our works and make them "ours". What I truly appreciate about you is your honesty to draw attention to the similarities. Thank you for both the dedi for Linda and this wonderful work you shared with us. Bunny
then
Excellent work and well worth dedication Ed.
farmerC
Dit is een Juweeltje.
daali
Beautiful Ed
three_grrr
I really like the color combo on this one, as well as the design, I see the human figure Lipa speaks of! The texturing is wonderfully done! The dedication is right on!
fractalinda
Delightful design and patternplay; superb layering..and such lovely coloring! I love the image, Ed, and I do appreciate the dedication and very kind words. I'm so sorry I missed this and am responding late. I'm honored that you would draw a similarity, as I've always appreciated your wonderful fractal work.