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 (24)
3x3
lovely flow and colors my friend
lyron
Fantastic image!!
claude19
Sumptuous Flow with excellent choose of colors ! Fantastic Abstract picture, dear Artfriend !!! Masterwork !
Juliette.Gribnau
ik heb een voorliefde voor gnarls.. en in deze kleurencombinatie helemaal !
farmerC
Deze kan zo aan de muur Ed. Fantastie's.
fractalbeke
Zeer fraai werk...prachtige vorm-en kleurspelingen. Bij me thuis mag ie ook wel aan de muur.
Dinhi
Beautiful!! I love what you do with the Gnarly thingys...[=
carlx
Looks fabulous and mystical!!! Excellent composition, Ed!!!
wannes
Verbluffend de manier waarop je fractal tot echte kunst verheft!! Schitterend!!!
erlandpil
Again a good work my friends erland
mel841
Love the fluidity and flow of this design!
kleinhoon
Heel fraai design met prachtige kleuren..!!
annie5
Superb abstract design..I adore the colors! Fantastic work Ed :)
VDH
Mooi en creatief werk!
bpclarke
Magnificent! A zoom on any of the gnarls would have been superb too! Excellent work. Bunny
amota99517
Fabulous work! I love the way the forms play off one another.
npauling
Love the gnarly look you have here.
Henny31
very special! lovely Gnarly work with my favorite colors.
Sheyenne
fascinating work @};-
dinner
Fraai, Ed !
three_grrr
I sit here just mesmerized by the beauty of it all .. a must to zoom in and examine closer!
afugatt
I love it!
mansco
Very nice and special ;O)
Eleandras
Gorgeous!