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 (22)
carlx
Wonderful colors, forms and details, Ed!!! Excellent composition!!!
VDH
Origineel design! Veel details en heel kleurrijk!
highcrow
Beautiful! Love the texture,wonderfully deep and rich!
annie5
Fantastic texture and colors! lovely details too..very original :)
fractalinda
Cool and striking!
daffodilbaggins
That's cool, Ed! You've got a wonderful shade of red there, and that texturing looks like little seeds all over the place! Nicely done!
afugatt
Amazing! I love that color of red and that texture!
amota99517
Beautiful work!!!
bpclarke
WOW! This is beautiful! Splendid colors and textures. Spectacular work. Bunny
Juliette.Gribnau
stroboscopisch effect heel duidelijk !! fijne kleuren en contrasten.. de bolletjes textuur vind ik heel leuk en speels gevonden. het geheel is zo erg aantrekkelijk
Dindin
Het heeft inderdaad iets weg van de schijf met plaatjes die door de stroboscoop een ilusie van bewegen geeft ,eigenlijk een voorloper van de film zoals we die nu kennen .Knap gedaan Ed .
farmerC
Schitterend werk met mooie kleuren. Een Juweeltje.
NekhbetSun
This is super cool ! very vibrant image ~
whirlingfeather
Love that coloring!
mansco
Splendid details Ed, love it ;O)
clydedough
Excellent frosty fractalness! Grand colors and just super work all around!
erlandpil
Beautiful! Love the texture,wonderfully deep and rich! Agree hewre erland
dinner
Lijkt wel een 3 luik :-) Gaaf, Ed !
ElizaB
great composition
Eleandras
Interesting image Algra!
Lipa
Lively dots, strong red movement.
CarolSassy
Adorable dotted texture! Pretty colors 'n' details! Excellent work! (: