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 (30)
Trollmac
Excellent work!
Fractelaar
Pretty soft texturecolorwork Ed
emmecielle
Wonderful image! :)
BloodFlowers
Belle pièce ..on dirait du cristal
Titia
Heel mooi, Ed. De imageimport van UF geeft veel leuke nieuwe mogelijkheden. FFF is inderdaad een geweldig programma. Ik heb ook geprobeerd er mee te werken, maar ik had teveel last van bugs. Henny en Arend maken er prachtige dingen mee.
CarolSassy
Very lovely, floral-like details! Nice choice of subtle colors! Excellent work! (:
OOh Betty
This is wonderful! It looks so delicate, almost like glass, and the background is beautiful.
carlx
Wonderful floral composition with splendid pastel colors and texture!!!
VDH
Mooi bloemen design!
dinner
Ik ben het helemaal met CarolSassy en Fractelaar eens, Ed !
Juliette.Gribnau
in een woord : schitterend !
Lipa
Beautiful soft glassy feel to this flower.
NekhbetSun
Splendid image S
daffodilbaggins
Well, however you did this, it's beautiful! Absolutely wonderful, Ed!
missouri
Lovely, subtle and soft, a super dedication for Henny
farmerC
Een topper,ED. Mooi in beeld gebracht.
Chromotron
beautiful abstract work !! I like the texture work a lot !
renderix
wonderful ed!
rj2650
Really cool image. Great job.
fractalbeke
fff ken ik niet Ed, 'k moet er ook eens werk van maken wanneer is jouw staaltje bekijk. Zeer mooi is ie.
bpclarke
Very soft, subtle and elegant. Almost dreamy. Splendid work. Bunny
fractalinda
Incredibly soft and beautiful, Ed, and a beautiful dedication to Henny, whose work I also love. Superb!
amota99517
I love the soft and dreamy feel that this has. Your design work is fantastic!!!!
Zooreka_
I hear you on FFF.. but you can get some very unique and lovely images out of it if you are prepared to suffer... This is one such example...I too am in love with Texture and Light and agree that this is one major boost with UF 5.... The possibility to apply UF texturing to Fractal images.... One of Photoshop's main weaknesses I think is in it's limitations to Perlin noise as the only direct noise algorhythm... Granted you can use any number of patterns as a texture overlay but not in the same way as you would use a direct colouring Nicely Conjured Ed!!!
novelist
Lovely work.
afugatt
Really gorgeous!
Henny31
How could I have missed this, it is gorgeous and what fun to be able to take it into UF to do post work.. Thanks Ed for dedicating this to me.. if it was not for you, I would not have had the program.. and I continue to feel challenged by it.
claude19
I like this texture very much ! Very romantic !!!
whirlingfeather
Very gorgeous! I gave FFF a try and found it so difficult, but still loved the presence of the depth, really like no other. A unique yet formidable program indeed.
Eleandras
Very beautiful!