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)
claude19
A very SPLENDID shot of an INCREDIBLE Sans SCUPTUTRE !!! EXCELLENT ! My mouth is wide opened !!!
jmb007
superbe photo!!!
carlx
Fantastic work and photography, Ed!!!
Juliette.Gribnau
oh wat geweldig mooi ! foto zowel als zandsculptuur
chesscanoe
Good thing we have photographers of sand sculptures and flowers and all other things that don't last long....
dochtersions
This is marvelous, Ed!! Fantastische foto van deze anonieme kunstenaar!
VDH
Mooie foto van dit kunstwerk!
clbsmiley
Cool!!! Isn't it amazing what they achieve. I went to the sandcastle competition in June in Galveston Texas. Posted some.
fractalbeke
Prachtig in alle opzichten, zowel de foto als de sculptuur en de technische aspecten die er komen bij kijken. Dank, Ed, om ons dit ten beste te geven.
pauljs75
Escher would have approved. :)
farmerC
Exellente opname ED.
wannes
Escher is één van mijn favoriete kunstenaars, deze 'anonymus artist' heeft prachtig werk geleverd! Knap in beeld gebracht, bedankt om dit te delen...
prutzworks
wow MC Escher in a sandy 3D version mooi plaatje!
Eleandras
Nice pic!