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.
ÂÂ
Comments (25)
carlx
Excellent and lovely title! Wonderful cream like brown and blue colors, textures and dynamism!!!
Juliette.Gribnau
heerlijk feestelijk ontwerp...ik krijg meteen de neiging om te gaan zingen ! mooie kleurencombinatie ook !
mansco
Very special colours and movement. Love it ;O)
CarolSassy
Pretty curves 'n' flowers! Lovely colors 'n' texturing! (:
kareldg
Heel mooi abstract met een mooie kleurencombinatie.
saretta
Splendid movement and brilliance,amazingly beautiful !!:-)
Lipa
Very airy, flying more than shining.
miincdesign
Wonderfully done. Awesome colors and design. Great Job!
melevos
very,very beautiful creation!!!!
daffodilbaggins
This is amazing! Looks so much like sunlight playing through shadows of some of the blue and tan pieces, and gives a wonderful effect! Great colors too--this one's a favorite!
VDH
Ziet er mooi en vrolijk uit! Prachtig Ed!!5*
farmerC
Een fijne plaat om naarte kijken. Schitterend werk.
kansas
:) Beautiful and delightful. Love the title. It fits.
IreneS
This is absolutely magnificent! I love everything about it.
clydedough
Wonderful SPLASH- great starpower and colors.
amota99517
Such a playful arrangement of stars floating upon lovely forms and delightful patterns. Well done!
bpclarke
Gorgeous colors, and wonderful over all design. Those stars are beautiful. Excellent work. Bunny
fractalinda
Such lovely coloring and subtle texture, and I like the dynamic flow.
annie5
Superb design with fabulous colors! Brilliant work :)
Dindin
Beautiful ,the way the large stars are giving birth to the baby stars ....that`s what you get if you swing too much on a star :-) Also love the title .
spiegel428
Very pretty colors and shapes!
afugatt
Really very beautiful!
miwi
Very pretty image,like it a lot!!!!!!!
ainsoph_00
nice fractalflowers in your gallery ! :)
three_grrr
Oh! How beautiful! A fairy tale come to life! I know there are little fairies swinging on these stars, I can just tell! Stars touched by the little faes always twinkle wonderfully like this!