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)
miincdesign
Ed, this is awesome. Great texture in the background, and colors. Nicely done!!
Juliette.Gribnau
fascinerend...boeiend... een vorm die meteen de aandacht opeist, omringd door fraai textuurwerk
Henny31
Very dreamy and excellent texture.
G_Mansco
Love this design and it's neat details, Ed. Really lovely ;O)
Fractelaar
Mooie 3d effecten en texture
VDH
Mooie textures en kleuren!
bakapo
beautiful textures and colors. nice shapes, too.
carlx
Wonderful colors, lights and lovely atmosphere!!!
farmerC
Fijne plaat ED. Mooie kleuren en achtergrond.
CarolSassy
Lovely lighting 'n' shadows! Gorgeous colors 'n' textures! Nice one! (:
renderix
cool work!
amota99517
Beautiful work!!! I love the metallic feel that this has.
daffodilbaggins
Nicely done, with some very interesting texturing!
Eleandras
Beautiful texture and colors.
Electralena
Beautiful colouring and texture. Great design!!!
bpclarke
Look at all that watermarked satin! This is gorgeous! Splendid work. Bunny
fractalinda
Cool and beautiful, Ed. I love the colouring.
Jennyfnf
Sheer delight. I love the soft damask fabric feel to this one Ed:-))
SSoffia
BEAUTIFUL & SPECTACULAR IMAGE !!!!!
highcrow
Very beautiful..I love the sense of merging into one another..the blending by those fine threads is lovely!
afugatt
Wow! I really love this!
saretta
To dream upon a star...and what a marvelous star this is,fantastic!!:-)
Lipa
Intriguing. Very.