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
Wonderful image with cool metallic feel to it. Love the title, and colors. Great job, Ed!!
carlx
Gorgeous composition, movement and lights!!! Love the title, too!!!
debz
Beautiful fractal! Lovely metallic texture! Great work!
FracJay
Nice job Ed, I like the form to this one!, and the metal type gradient is very nice...Heel mooi werk
Juliette.Gribnau
schitterend !!!.. ook zonder dat je naam erbij staat weet ik dat-ie van jouw hand is, of beter gezegd : uit jouw computer komt ! Een lust voor het oog !
ElizaB
this is great..wonderful metalic creation and title
annie5
Looks like in metal..fabulous colors too! Really beautiful Ed :)
bpclarke
A gorgeous shining work. Very beautiful metal like textures and shine. Bunny
leanndra
Beautiful metallic fractal! I love that song by Frank Sinatra!
Eleandras
Beautiful image!
meico
I know the song [that's OK]... but I'm one of the few people on the planet who can't stand Sinatra. Your delicate and elegant image is FAR too good for him! Mike
daffodilbaggins
Nicely done, Ed! Yeah, they used that song at the end of the movie Space Cowboys--very poignant, I thought, in light of the way they ended the movie. Lovely fractal image here!
cigany2
Beautiful.
Henny31
Heel apart and schitterende kleur . AWESOME!
afugatt
Beautiful metallic design!
wannes
Mooi elegant design! Knap gedaan!
VDH
Heel sierlijk design! Mooi werk!!
farmerC
Exellent werk,Ed. Een vergroting waard.
Fractelaar
Mooi sierraad in metal tone,s
amota99517
Cool work! I love the metal feel of the forms.
renderix
wonderful ed!
three_grrr
This is so perfect for that song and title! It's another beautiful work, it makes me smile!
Lipa
Elegant metallic dandelion seed.