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.Â
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 (20)
Juliette.Gribnau
hemeltje... dit is echt wel op z'n Escher's !! knap stuk werk Ed !
cigany2
Nice pattern.
meico
Clever title ... I see echoes of Celtic art and Greek key-pattern designs in the image. Love the colour combination - classic! Mike
Fractelaar
Bovenstuk is echt Escher style het eindeloos door lopen laten interresant plaatje
NekhbetSun
Reminds me of Greek...well done !
eraline
beautifly created
novelist
I agree with the others, I saw Greek mythology immediately. Lovely design!
Autelius
Like something on an ancient Greek vase. And, yes, with echoes of Escher. A lovely design!
carlx
Excellent patterns and design, Ed!!!
erlandpil
You do it again Great work erland
VDH
Repititief design! Creatief werk!
debz
Lovely pattern and design! Great work!
bpclarke
I like the geometric shapes in this. Great color contrasts too. Bunny
spiegel428
I like this a lot! Very original.
missouri
I agree, lots of Grecian elements in this, well done
npauling
Very different with a great little pattern.
afugatt
Very interesting pattern.
mountmous
Errug mooi. Heb net vorige week een boek van Escher gekocht ^_^
Eleandras
Lovely pattern!
clifftoppler
You know I'd be a sucker for this one! I like the Greek feeling, and hence your title. A message is transmitted!