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 413 pixels and compressed the image at 61% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 542 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 417 pixels and compressed the image at 63% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 523 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 460 pixels and compressed the image at 61% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 508 pixels and compressed the image at 43% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 490 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 384 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 374 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 565 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 395 pixels, compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 339 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 38 color gif and someone else resized the image to 362 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 436 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 15 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 375 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 47 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 412 pixels, compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 553 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 23 color gif and someone else reduced to a 38 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 508 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 465 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 548 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 477 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 538 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 442 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Finally someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 333 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis