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 (11)
matstan2610
Nice coloring, light and shadows.
Juliette.Gribnau
lekker verwarrend... in eerste oogopslag zie je een symmetrische figuur.. totdat je secuur gaat kijken ! knap gevonden
algra
Die eer komt natuurlijk in de eerste plaats toe aan de auteurs van de formules: Toby Marshall met zijn onvolprezen Doodads II waarmee zulke patronen en ruimtelijke effecten mogelijk zijn en niet te vergeten Tom Lowe, die het algortime van de Mandelbox schreef. Daaruit leidde ik weer een variant af: de Mandelsquare voor UF.
dwarvenkind
Cool!
bebopdlx
Like some kind of alien code.
peedy
Beautiful! Corrie
farmerC
Dit is fijn werk om naar te kijken. bedankt voor de info.
sossy
amazing glowing design! so glad to find an old friend still posting here! ;o))))
VDH
Ongewone, maar creatieve fractal!
Hubert
Very elegant in its simplicity.
rachris480907
Beautiful fractal render! It seems to glow from within.
ia-du-lin
very nice pattern, beautiful image