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 (30)
VDH
Heel origineel Ed! Ziet er inderdaad heel technisch uit! Mooi werk!!
melevos
U I T S T E K E N D !!!!!!!!!!!
mountmous
Lol. I hope you've got security watching it because I bet a lot of people would like to touch and figure out how it feels and how it works ^_^
claude19
SPLENDID fractal with excellent colouring and a fine texture ! Great success to this !!!
Fractelaar
Interresting design Ed like special the oval sphere,s and the interaction of the textures that play,s with your eyes
leanndra
Very cool and it does look technical!
farmerC
Dit is mooi in evenwicht. Schitterende creatie.
rj2650
Really coll and beautiful image. Great job.
Juliette.Gribnau
boeiend geheel van vorm kleur en interactie
carlx
SUPERB!!!
Dindin
Nice ,a space station with add ons .
NekhbetSun
Awesome image ~
CarolSassy
Nice depth! Pretty colors 'n' metallics! Cool details! (:
wannes
Creatief en origineel fractalwerk! Knap gedaan!
missouri
Marvelous metallics, I wouldn't touch, it might snap at me.
annie5
Magnific abstract design Ed! Superb and colors too :)
amota99517
Wonderful work!
bpclarke
Beautiful and creative abstract! Gorgeous work. Bunny
daffodilbaggins
Very nicely done, Ed!
SSoffia
WONDERFUL DESIGN :)
fractalbeke
Ed, gefeliciteerd met dit nieuw, letterlijk, schitterend werk.Doet me aan een modern metalen sculptuur denken. Geslaagde compositie.
fractalinda
Very cool "tech" design and depth..and the colors are great!
dinner
Supper, een technisch hoog standje, Ed !
mansco
Great creativity ;O)
erlandpil
Just beautifult erland
Eleandras
Wow!!!!!!!
afugatt
That's wonderful!
three_grrr
Oh! I love Technical Stuff! My fingers are just itching to reach out and touch it!! Are there guards watching??? Awesome stuff, just awesome!
Lipa
Stainless.
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