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 reduced to a 31 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 348 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 466 pixels and compressed the image at 59% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 379 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 486 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 59 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 413 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 52 color gif.

After that and they reduced to a 29 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 333 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 362 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 43 color gif and then someone resized the image to 464 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 478 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 47 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 490 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 337 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 564 pixels, compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 475 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 534 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 27 color gif.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 537 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 35 color gif.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 335 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 308 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 456 pixels, compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 384 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 38 color gif and someone else resized the image to 323 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Finally someone resized the image to 429 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis