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 (19)
carlx
Excellent composition, tones and textures, Ed!!!
Jennyfnf
HaHa Ed - just put it on my bill.....Thanks for brightening my day. This is so lovely:-)
VDH
Prachtige vormen, textures en kleuren! Excellent werk!
fractalbeke
Grappige titel en zeer mooi werk, Ed. Ook de spiraal staat hier op de juiste plaats.
Henny31
excellent work, love the "engraved" spiral.
annie5
Love the texture and tones! Really pretty, Ed :)
farmerC
De spiraal is een aandacht trekker. Het is mooi werk en kleur.
claude19
I see Bioener the famous duck, but I also see forms shimmering drawings delicious. EXQUISE composition! BRILLIANT!
Juliette.Gribnau
geestig en leuk.. mooie reflectie van een spiraal bovendien !
wannes
Mooi abstract met een humoristisch kantje... knap gedaan!
jmb007
delle image!!
kleinhoon
Prachtig fractal werk, de kleine spiraal maakt het af..!!
afugatt
Hehe! This is gorgeous!
amota99517
Wow! This is beautiful!
clbsmiley
Hi donald!!! and fish fossil.
LindaMcC
"Donald" is rich and handsome. Nice work, Ed!
lyron
Excellent work!!
dochtersions
Very fine colors, textures and result!
Eleandras
Lovely image!