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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 resized the image to 314 pixels and compressed the image at 40% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 379 pixels and compressed the image at 68% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 364 pixels and compressed the image at 44% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 369 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 435 pixels and compressed the image at 45% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 424 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 556 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 484 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 45 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 564 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 320 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 516 pixels, compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 449 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 410 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 540 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 535 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 381 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 485 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 561 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 458 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 405 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 335 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 32 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 472 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 337 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 444 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 314 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 328 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 11 color gif.

Finally they resized the image to 477 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

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