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 (17)
clbsmiley
Cool one! Same colors as Jimpan.
Juliette.Gribnau
another beauty.. and allthough most leaves have fallen yet, autumn will last until mid-december
peedy
Beautiful! Corrie
NefariousDrO
That is beautiful, I wish I could touch that surface, it looks so textural and full of subtle details. Lovely creation!
chesscanoe
Very nice, and sure to last through just this season....
carlx
Wonderful composition and mood, Ed!!!
VDH
Een echte herfstsfeer!
claude19
my artist friend, you should visit us more often with your splendid frescoes!
fallen21
Excellent fractal.
philuf
What a cool creation!
alida
nice choice of colors
fractalbeke
Wat mij bij dit plaatje opvalt, is de geleidelijke vertekening van het geel-bruine motief, waar het rechts waarschijnlijk op een spiraal eindigt. Het plaatje lijkt wel een horizontale strook op de evenaar van een denkbeeldige 'fractalplaneet'. De textuur is weer een topper !
Shaamt
Simple but effective. Love it.
ia-du-lin
great structured fractal work, nice colors
farmerC
Prachtige creatie.
leonie
Fantastic image Ed! I just got referred to one of your comments on this website: http://www.algorithmic-worlds.net/blog/blog.php?Post=20110724 by my friend LucaGN over there! Another math guy, eh! So how's it going? Glad to see you're still making lovely art here! I'm back to posting at dA after several years of being in Second Life and showing my art in there. http://leoniezurakowsky.deviantart.com/ Say hi to Will and hope to hear from you again! Leonie
MagikUnicorn
Very nice