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 300 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 510 pixels and compressed the image at 54% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 485 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 32 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 465 pixels and compressed the image at 46% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 547 pixels and compressed the image at 44% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 36 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 532 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 547 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 391 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 392 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 40 color gif and then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 335 pixels, compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 530 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 311 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 362 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 539 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 17 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 10 color gif and someone reduced to a 41 color gif.

After that, they reduced to a 15 color gif and someone resized the image to 523 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 331 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 322 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 484 pixels, compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 520 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 17 color gif and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 320 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Finally someone reduced to a 21 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis