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)
VDH
Creatief en mooi werk!
mansco
A real beauty my friend ;O) Very special tones!
fractalbeke
Zeer mooi werk, Ed. Bij het openen van het plaatje dacht ik echter aan huiddelen van een soort reptiel. Mijn complimenten voor deze structurele opbouw.
claude19
WONDERFUL textures, AWESOME forms...Great impressive feeling !!!
Jennyfnf
Sensational image Ed.......Don't you just love this formula:-) You must use the zoom!!!
Juliette.Gribnau
een "rijke"oogst aan prachtige vormen en fruitige fractaldetails !!
carlx
Impressive composition, Ed!!!
bpclarke
Wow! Gorgeous creation! Love the colors and the design.
Titia
Wat een schoonheid!!!
erlandpil
A real beauty image erland
farmerC
Prachtig werk. komt zeer warm over.
wannes
Creatief en origineel, zoals steeds... knap werk!
afugatt
I love it!
daali
splendid work Ed!
3x3
lovely reptile structure Ed x
amota99517
Wow! This is fantastic! I love the texturing on this piece.
e-brink
Wonderful style - a very beautiful image.
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philuf
What wonderful creation, colours and textures! Looks like a snake skin
iceberg5
Lovely colours and textures in this fine image !
three_grrr
Apologies for having fallen so far behind again, and thank you for the very nice comment on my gnarly post. This is wonderful, just glancing at the thumbnails, I really like this theme .. this particular pattern that shows up in a few thumbnails in your gallery. This looks like harvest .. it looks like a large pumpkin or some kind of squash .. the texture or pattern is wodnerful! And so are the colors
bakapo
fantastic textures and light in this. well done!
XoxoTree
wonderful design
SimonKane
Very nice composition.