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 (23)
juca
Perfect fractals!!
carlx
Beautiful and fine composition!!! Very beautiful colors and texture!!!
mansco
This is really a beautiful design, splendid shines. Good one ;O)
daffodilbaggins
Love that blue, and the lighting is great!
CarolSassy
Beautiful lighting 'n' flowery stars! Pretty colors, and very nice depth 'n' texturing! Excellent work! (:
bpclarke
Gorgeous work. I really like the cutout feel of this image and of course the beautiful sparkly starts. ;o) Splendidly done. Bunny
amota99517
Fabulous work!!! I love the depth and dimension of this piece and how it has a cut art look to it. Very well done.
Electralena
Beautiful lighting, colours, texture. Great design. Very well done!!!
fractalinda
Beautiful image!
clydedough
A sparkeling beauty, very nice work!
Henny31
I can always see your love for FFF in all your pictures.. and maybe this way you will be able to do with UF what you always wanted to do with that program.. Marvelous image.
Lipa
Beautiful stars, incredible depth between the starry strips.
annie5
Excellent title..lovely colors and tezture! Magnific creation :)
VDH
Sterren fonkelen aan de hemel..Excellent Ed!
saretta
Cannot be a revolt,they float so harmoniously,i bet they are dancing...yes they're having a beautiful celebration in the night sky,gorgeous tones and design!!:-)
farmerC
Ed hij is weer prachtig.
talisman018
Very pretty! Not sure if the yellow works for me, but I love it!
afugatt
Stunning!
adonise
Beautiful colors and lighting, lovely fractal!
kansas
A beautiful starlight composition.
Gaiadriel
Oh, how I wish I could create something, even once, as lovely as this in UF, Ed. But, alas, it hates me...lol. An extraordinarily beautiful composition...with wondrous lighting and coloring. Bravo! :)
Xantipa
Wonderful work..
three_grrr
Ah, yes, they are in revolt, tired of being made to sit in the same spot all the time, night after night, they have decided to rebel against order and create some chaos, the North Star showing up in the Southern Cross, the Big Dipper getting very mixed up with Ursa Minor, and Ursa Major has decided to chace Taurus across the sky .. and so on it goes. And you've managed to capture it all in such a beautiful manner!