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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 reduced to a 39 color gif.
Someone else reduced to a 34 color gif.
Someone else reduced to a 28 color gif.
Then they resized the image to 333 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.
Someone else resized the image to 430 pixels and compressed the image at 60% jpeg quality.
Someone else reduced to a 63 color gif.
Then they resized the image to 536 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.
After that, they resized the image to 319 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.
After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 570 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.
Someone resized the image to 497 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.
Then someone resized the image to 557 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.
Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 472 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 470 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.
Then they resized the image to 341 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 573 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.
Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 473 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 501 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.
Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 514 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 45 color gif.
Someone else reduced to a 36 color gif and after that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 319 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.
After that, they reduced to a 38 color gif and someone resized the image to 367 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.
Then someone resized the image to 436 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 368 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.
After that, they resized the image to 575 pixels, compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 456 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.
After that, they resized the image to 503 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 358 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.
Finally they resized the image to 540 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.
Oh my, that got pretty bad.
Website by Joachim Michaelis
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