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 (18)
Fractelaar
Mooie gekleurde zoom lijkt wat op een kralengordijn
carlx
Superb colors and details, Ed!!! Excellent modern look!!!
Juliette.Gribnau
hot indeed !!
rocserum
Wonderful work,like a native indian design! RS
farmerC
Mooi ontwerp voor een wandkleed. kleuren zijn af.
jmb007
beau travail!
claude19
Great musical reference !!! I love Be Bop rythm !!! Splendid graphism !
Rerewhakaaitu
It's like a complex tapestry of heat shimmers. It fits the refeerence very well.
Eleandras
Beautiful!
Glendaw
Beautiful design. Oh ya feel the heat. Bop music is one of my past favorites.Super dedication.
greyone
Interesting design. Nice work
wannes
Spectaculaire kleuren en een apart fractal design... mooi werk!
amota99517
Fantastic work and so impressive.
VDH
Heel creatief werk!
dochtersions
Zeer mooi patroon, met een tikje folklore erin.
chesscanoe
Maybe a high-low daily temperature graph also?
tresamie
Great rhythm and melody! I am beginning to explore these formulae and having a blast :)
fractalbeke
Bij m'n eerste oogopslag dacht ik dat het een repetitief patroon was. Bij nader toezien bleek dat helemaal niet het geval ... Dus een dikke "BRAVO", Ed !