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 resized the image to 564 pixels and compressed the image at 65% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 47 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 554 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 505 pixels and compressed the image at 63% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 312 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 34 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 490 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 467 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 554 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 398 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 309 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 330 pixels, compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 424 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 24 color gif and then they resized the image to 391 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 42 color gif and after that and they reduced to a 24 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 428 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 495 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 36 color gif and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 334 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 475 pixels, compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 535 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 480 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 441 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 449 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 444 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 571 pixels, compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 387 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

Finally someone reduced to a 21 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis