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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 550 pixels and compressed the image at 50% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 28 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 387 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 25 color gif.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 334 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 385 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 463 pixels and compressed the image at 62% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 580 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 519 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 439 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 310 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 360 pixels, compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 323 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 26 color gif and someone resized the image to 425 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 472 pixels, compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 488 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 382 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 34 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 533 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 382 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 316 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 10 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 446 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 303 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 460 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 468 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 411 pixels, compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 309 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Finally someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 471 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

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