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 (29)
fractalbeke
Opnieuw een zeer geslaagde compositie .Ik kijk er met genoegen naar. 5++
wannes
Dankzij de goed gekozen kleuren en textuur komt het diepte effect hier erg goed tot zijn recht!! Knappe vondst en mooi uitgevoerd!!!
BloodFlowers
J'aime beaucoup... est-ce une raffinerie de pétrole ? :-D
farmerC
Fantastice mooi uitgevoerd werk.
Juliette.Gribnau
een boeiende maar wel ietwat drukke compositie
Fractelaar
Druk patroontje maar wel hele mooie mettalic kleurtonen
annie5
Intriguing and interesting abstract design! Super Ed :)
carlx
Excellent techno, Ed!!! Superb view!!!
rocserum
the repeating pattern creates rhythmic creation, well done! RS
VDH
Een ingewikkelde metalen constuctie!Excellent Ed!
gateman45
xcellente!!!
rj2650
Really cool image. Great detail.
bpclarke
Amazing and intricate work! Splendid art. Bunny
SSoffia
FANTASTIC DESIGN & TEXTURES !!!!!
NekhbetSun
Most awesome industrial look...well done ~
daffodilbaggins
Excellent, Ed! It really does look like a refinery, or part of one! Nice!
mel841
Fantastic work!! Really feels like a refinery!!
leanndra
Ed, this is some very fine fractal engineering you have created here! :)
claude19
EXCEPTIONAL picture of industrial mechanics !!! Great colors...I like it very much !
amota99517
Wow! This is fabulous! I love this mechanical look.
erlandpil
Again a beautifult image erland
kleinhoon
Very nice "high tech" creation..!!
afugatt
I love the colors in this!
Lipa
Smooth operator.
Mondwin
Fabulous work...bravissimo!:DDD.Hugsxx
melevos
E X C E L L E N T !!!!!!
three_grrr
Fabulous work! I love this new techno. The industrial feel to this one is awesome, the intricate pipe work really grab my eyes!
Eleandras
Really nice!!!
renderix
wonderful piece ed!