Graphics

Internet Image Degradation

Do things grow old in cyberspace? The answer is "yes"...

When pictures are constantly copied from website to website, and recompressed and rescaled every time, an interesting loss of quality occurs gradually over time. This page tries to simulate and display this gradual devolution. The first picture is the original.

First someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 540 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 557 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 393 pixels and compressed the image at 62% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 477 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 56 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 467 pixels and compressed the image at 41% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 544 pixels and compressed the image at 54% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 341 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 407 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 44 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 408 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 483 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 392 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 534 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 404 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 370 pixels, compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 38 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 494 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 47 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 422 pixels, compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 415 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 469 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 322 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 403 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 518 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 423 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 23 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 373 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 38 color gif.

Finally they reduced to a 29 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis