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 (14)
carlx
Superb composition and view, Ed!!!
Juliette.Gribnau
levendige en speelse vormgeving met een sterk diepte-gevoel
claude19
AWESOME BEAUTIFUL fractal with discreet colors !!!
fractalbeke
Bij het zien van de naam stelde ik me de vraag: "... wat gaat het nu worden ?" Wel...het is er weer eentje van de bovenste plank. De vervaagde hoeken scheppen een uitgesproken bolvormig effect. Knap gemaakt en ik vermoed hoeveel zoekwerk je'r aan hebt gehad.
VDH
Heel origineel en mooi werk!
chesscanoe
Very imaginative implementation of this fine image.
bpclarke
Very lovely image. Very different textures.
Jennyfnf
Right on the edge of the formula! I like it when this happens Ed. You get the lovely pinking shears effect for extra textures. Lovely palette too.
3x3
lovely design ED x
Titia
Prachtig werk, Ed.
farmerC
Ed,Het is Schitterend.
XoxoTree
i like the pattern in this
erlandpil
Very lovely image erland
afugatt
Very interesting! I love the textures and colors.