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)
alida
nice shade of grey
rocserum
I love this sort of fine pen drawings, I make them myself, with a natural pen of course, Nice picture! RS
carlx
Beautiful composition and graphism!!!
peedy
Gorgeous! Love the shadow-work. Corrie
Juliette.Gribnau
bijzonder !
ia-du-lin
beautiful b/w fractal work
fractalbeke
Heel mooi gedaan, Ed. Opmerkelijke textuur en tekening in zwart/wit.
claude19
the magic of the line, inventiveness, contrast black and white, all combine to make a real work of art! thank you
Fractelaar
Leuk monochroom werkstukje Ed doet me ergens denken aan een vlinder
farmerC
Schitterende creatie.
mountmous
Fijn dat we je werk weer kunnen bewonderen, Ed. Beautiful b/w piece.
fallen21
Amazing image!
dochtersions
Een erg mooi en stijlvol ontwerp. Het doet mij een beetje aan een bloem denken.
VDH
Een mooi design en textuur in relief, in zw-w komt de tekening tot zijn recht.Knap werk Ed